Re: [drakma-devel] Bug handling bad html?

Scribit Jeffrey Cunningham dies 25/02/2007 hora 08:26:

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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