Page OW displays as text

Fri Apr 7 12:57:28 PDT 1995

> If you retrieve the page
> 	http://www.lbbs.org/ OW (version 1.0 gamma)
> displays it as plain text:

Hmm.  When I looked at that page in OmniWeb 1.0, it displayed fine.  You  
might want to try upgrading to the final release.

> I don't know if this is a browser or server problem (lynx
> can display the page).

Well, there is some server weirdness in that it doesn't seem to be an HTTP  
1.0 server:  if you "telnet www.lbbs.org 80" and say "GET / HTTP/1.0", it  
doesn't send the Content-Type header, etc.  (Compare with saying the same  
thing at an HTTP 1.0 server.)

I think that HTTP 0.9 servers are supposed to send "<HTML>" at the  
beginning of their document to identify the rest of what they're sending as  
HTML.  Presumably, this document started with "<HTML>" at one point (it's on  
the second line, now), but then they recently upgraded the document to be  
SGML conformant (adding the "<!DOCTYPE" header), and broke some of the HTTP  
0.9 compatibility code out there.  Ideally, they'd change their server so it  
speaks HTTP 1.0.

				Ken