On November 14, 2006 at 18:08, "Christopher P. Lindsey" wrote:
Unfortunately, this seems to break MHonArc, probably because it only
expects one and uses it to determine X-Body-of-Message et al.
It has nothing to do with X-Body-of-Message. HEAD is removed
since it would be invalid HTML to keep it as-is when the entity
is included in the MHonArc message page.
This problem has already been reported and has a bug ID of #17563.
I've been reading through the W3C DTD for HTML 4.01 and it's not clear
to me if HTML documents are allowed one HEAD element or more than one:
Only one is allowed, and it if it occurs, it must occur before
BODY.
If more than one is allowed, it's a bug in MHonArc. But if it's Yahoo!'s
fault, MHonArc is in the clear and will just work around it. ;)
It is Yahoo, and it is a mess. The second HEAD appears after the
BODY containing the real content of the message.
I think it has to do with lazy Yahoo engineers relying on liberal
web browsers. If web browsers were a little stricter, HTML content
generators would be forced to do things cleaner, and there would
probably be less security risks.
Does anyone know for sure how this should be handled? I have a patch
included below to correct this
I try to avoid minimal matching since it is inefficient, but it
is one way to get around the problem.
--ewh
