Bug 35746 – gentoo.org xml pages are not really xml

• Product: Websites
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Jan Stanzel 2003-12-13 11:55:10 UTC]

Ok, this is not exactly what you would call a bug, but I think it's worth reporting it. Here we go:
All the pages on gentoo.org have filenames ending with ".xml". But when you look at it more closely, you will see that all the files actually are html (Doctype, actual content, and server's "Content-Type" header). I know it's a lot of work to convert all the pages into valid xml, but if you make people believe it's xml when it isn't, it's kinda lying imho :-)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit gentoo.org
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Actual Results:  
Getting html instead of xml.

Expected Results:  
Either filenames ending with ".html" or similar, or delivering xml.

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[Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) 2003-12-13 12:34:56 UTC]

Jan,
The pages are infact .xml you can see this both in cvs and by passing ?passthru=1 to most pages in order to get the unrendered versions.


solar@simple solar $ telnet www.gentoo.org 80 
Trying 212.162.48.146...
Connected to www.gentoo.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /?passthru=1
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<mainpage id="news">
	<title>Gentoo Linux News</title>
	<version>Current</version>
	<newsitems/>
</mainpage>
	
Connection closed by foreign host.

[Comment 2 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2003-12-13 15:36:01 UTC]

The pages are valid XML.  We simply choose to process them before presenting it to the client.

This is an invalid bug.  Closing as such.