Comment on The Netscape Dorm (1994)parentComments−yuhong15y"The web server also had to be configured to not send a "charset" parameter on the "Content-Type" header, because the old browsers didn't know what to make of that. "Looks like someone messed that up later. From a telnet session to home.mcom.com:HEAD / HTTP/1.0HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:57:27 GMTServer: ApacheLast-Modified: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 19:00:00 GMTETag: "10400d9-f1-2c7ebe95f4c00"Accept-Ranges: bytesContent-Length: 241Cache-Control: max-age=31536000Expires: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:57:27 GMTVary: Accept-EncodingConnection: closeContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8−yuhong15yIt is fixed now.
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"The web server also had to be configured to not send a "charset" parameter on the "Content-Type" header, because the old browsers didn't know what to make of that. "
Looks like someone messed that up later. From a telnet session to home.mcom.com:
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:57:27 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 19:00:00 GMT
ETag: "10400d9-f1-2c7ebe95f4c00"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 241
Cache-Control: max-age=31536000
Expires: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:57:27 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
It is fixed now.