Re: Displaying mails with Content-Type: text/html

[Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Davidson <jdavidso@nospam.com> writes:

    Jim> Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au> writes:
    >> >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann
    >> <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
    >> 
    Kai> The `bad' mail is missing a Mime-Version header.
    >> It shows up OK here...
    >> 
    >> Which is quite remarkable considering most HTML code I have
    >> seen lately isn't parsed correctly by w3.
    >> 
    >> -- Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>

    Jim> I've found W3 to be fairly good, given the obvious
    Jim> limitations of Emacs.  It's a little slow, so I use Netscape
    Jim> for large messages, but it's otherwise OK.

I often get errors, for instance, when trying to view
http://bugs.debian.org/:

Signaling: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p 35486)
  w3-parse-buffer(#<buffer " *URL-2*">)
  w3-prepare-buffer()
  w3-pass-to-viewer()
  w3-sentinel(#<buffer " *URL-2*">)
  w3-fetch("http://www.debian.org/Bugs/")
  url-maybe-relative("http://www.debian.org/Bugs/")
  url-parse-mime-headers(nil t)
  url-retrieve-internally("http://bugs.debian.org/" nil)
  url-retrieve("http://bugs.debian.org/")
  #<compiled-function (from "w3.elc") (&optional url target) "...(604)" [w3-setup-done w3-do-setup boundp w3-working-buffer url-working-buffer command-line-args-left string-match url-nonrelative-link url "" error "No document specified!" "^www:[^/].*" file-name-directory url-current-object 5 4 nil string-to-char ?\  1 target w3-base-target intern w3-target-window-distances window-distance other-window (_blank external) w3-fetch-other-frame _top delete-other-windows message "target %S not found." ?\# w3-relative-link current-prefix-arg w3-dump-to-disk w3-download-url url-view-url t url-buffer-visiting buf lastbuf x url-request-method "GET" "get" w3-reuse-buffers (no never reload) (yes reuse always) ...] 6 ("/usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/lisp/w3/w3.elc" . 7030) (list (w3-read-url-with-default))>("http://bugs.debian.org/")
  call-interactively(w3-fetch)

Then again perhaps that is because I am using the w3 that comes with
w3? I think this version was old.

I will try the newest version later.
-- 
Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>