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Tue Oct 9 13:18:00 BST 2007

> -----Original Message-----
> From: london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org 
> [mailto:london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Kaoru
> Sent: 09 October 2007 12:41
> To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers
> Subject: Re: www.cpan.org
> 
> On 10/9/07, Ismail, Rafiq (IT) <Rafiq.Ismail at morganstanley.com> wrote:
> > It appears that someone has decided to minimalise the 
> frontpage of cpan.
> > There's no content:
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> 
> > <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; 
> > charset=windows-1252"></HEAD> <BODY></BODY></HTML>
> >
> 
> Hm, what browser are you using? In Firefox 2.0.0.7 I get a 
> completely empty document when I 'view source', and 'page 
> info' tells me it's in Quirks Mode on a text/html type page 
> of 0 KB (0 bytes).
> 

That's odd.  IE, gives me this balanced tree, complete with a charset,
but no conent.  Firefox doesn't.  Apparently Microsoft feel it necessary
to create phantom content..  Must be am attempt to circumvent a bug
which would otherwise blowup up IE and the universe, were it ever to see
a 0 byte document.  

> Either way something's not right :P

Indeed.
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