[drakma-devel] Bug handling bad html?

[Jeffrey Cunningham]

On Sun Feb 25, 2007 at 07:00:03PM +0200, Anton Vodonosov wrote:
> Hi, Jeff.
> 
> "Signaling an error" means in this case that
> work can be proceeded.
> 
> (setq *provide-use-value-restart* t)
> 
> (handler-bind
>   ((flexi-stream-encoding-error (lambda (condition) 
> 
>                                   (use-value \?))))
>               (drakma:http-request("http://bad-host/bad-page.html")))
> 
> 
> This is example from flexi-stream documentation.
> 
> You can easy get "the best approximation of the content"
> using drakma, but with more control. So it is unclear to my,
> what problems you have.
> 
> -Anton

Hi Anton,

Thanks for the help. Will the example above work for any bad
charactor, or only the one set by

(setf flexi-streams::*SUBSTITUTION-CHAR* (code-char #xA0))

The only example I've run across is the site I mentioned, but it seems
like the possibilities for bad html are endless.

--Jeff