[drakma-devel] Bug handling bad html?

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Jeffrey Cunningham dies 25/02/2007 hora 08:26:
> > If you find something like that, send patches, but it sounds like
> > magic (or at least very good AI) to me.
> 
> I guess I disagree. 
> 
> If I try to access a page like that using: links, lynx, wget, mozilla,
> firefox, or any html parsing entity I can think of they don't stop
> functioning, signal an error, or whatever you want to call it. They
> give me their best approximation of the content. Seems like that ought
> be the goal here, or at least a possibility. 

AFAICS, those browsers just substitute bad bytes with a single
substitution glyph. My Firefox uses a white interrogation mark in a
black diamond.

You can already achieve that with flexi-streams, IIUC.

Quickly,
Pierre
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