Mike Meyer wrote: > Since following standards is optional on the web, at least if things > work in the most popular browser of the day, I probably should have > seen this coming.
IE has no problems handling that link, if that's what you mean. judging from [ Info] Unable to open input file: http://www.mired.org/downloads/P(x)-0.2.tar.gz [ Info] Compilation error: Unrecognized header string it looks like LB has configured his browser to pass all gz files to some ancient VRML plugin; see e.g. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#VRML_error </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list