Accessing CVS-WEB?

[Cole, Timothy D.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John E. Malmberg [SMTP:malmberg at Encompasserve.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:24
> To:	samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject:	Re: Accessing CVS-WEB?
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > "John E. Malmberg" wrote:
> > > 
> > > http://pserver.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ does not work on Netscape
> 3.0.3
> > > It just displays a few random characters.
> > 
> > Its the gzip encoding.  The files are gzip encoded to save bandwidth
> > (becouse they are both large and compress well), and your older browser
> > doesn't understand it.  Upgrade your browser.
> 
> Is there some way to detect that a browser can not handle the gzip
> encoding so that at the minimum, a proper error page can be displayed?
> 
	The browser sends an Accept-encoding: header in the request
indicating which encodings it will accept (if I recall).