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Tue Oct 9 14:23:52 BST 2007

On 10/9/07, Ismail, Rafiq (IT) <Rafiq.Ismail at morganstanley.com> wrote:
> > -----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.

FF does this as well in some situations.

>.  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.

At least it would be able to do that in a multi-threaded way.

P

>
> > Either way something's not right :P
>
> Indeed.
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