Re: gpo archive

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

so ....

you want

thumper.public.resource.org:/pro/bulk.resource.org/htdocs/ 
gpo.gov/.htaccess

to have the line

    AddType text/html txt

Is that right?

Carl

On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> I'm pretty sure their waisgate interface returns everything as html
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
> > On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
> >
> > > > > > http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/bills/108/h5352ih.txt
> > > > >
> > > > > Those documents are actually lame HTML, not text. (They're  
> > > > > wrapped in
> > > > > a <pre> tag and &, <, and > are all quoted.)
> > > >
> > > > we just shelve what they ship.  :)
> > >
> > > yeah, but you should serve them with content-type: text/html so they
> > > render correctly.
> >
> >
> > er.  I suppose I can do that if I knew exactly which directories  
> > should get
> > that .htaccess mod to the normal handling for txt and which ones  
> > really are
> > ascii txt.
> >
> > in our next stage of evolution, I hope to have people spending more  
> > time
> > making the data better, but right now the focus is much more on  
> > proving the
> > point and honing in.  seriously ... you don't want my mirror of the  
> > waisgate
> > system, you want the raw data from gpo.
> >
> > If someone wants to look at the txt files in gpo.gov/... and say  
> > which ones
> > are really html, happy to through the right mime types back.   
> > Otherwise, we
> > assume it is a client issue.
> >
> > Carl