Re: [Phpwiki-talk] rss for RecentChanges

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On seemingly gzipped data:

Currently, PhpWiki (1.3) uses PHP's ob_gzhandler() function to
gzip-compress data sent to clients who send an 'Accept-Encoding:
application/gzip' header in their request.  When this happens, the fact
that the data is compressed in indicated by a 'Content-Encoding' header in
the response --- then the client/browser is supposed to uncompress the
data before doing anything else with it.

If you're seeing seemingly random (gzipped looking) binary data, then
something is wrong with this process.  (The RSS data is XML, and should
look like something if you look at it with a text viewer.)


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On viewing RSS with Galeon:

Separate issue:  Galeon treats all XML files as if they were 'text/xml'. 
It assumes they're marked up text, and tries to display the file as such. 
In the case of RSS, since none of the tags have any mark-up styles
associated with them, what you see is the RSS file with all of the XML
tags removed.  As mentioned in my previous note, this will not make a lot
of sense.