Live Spaces suck, one more time
Live Spaces made some change days before, and that makes me unable to see any live space pages.
When I use Camino to visit live spaces pages, I always get a "XML Parsing Error", even the page I'm visiting is not the RSS but a html. When I use Firefox or Safari, I always get a HTTP 500 error.
The "XML Parsing Error" is really weird. It seems that the live spaces server send a wrong "Content-Type" so that Camino treat it as a XML document and try to parse it use a XML tree, and that failed (with "view source" I can see the html source corretly).
But Camino didn't have a extension like live HTTP headers to see what Content-Type do the server send, thanks to smorgan on MozillaZine Forums, I can see it using curl.
This is what curl get:
McManaman:~ fishy$ curl -v http://spaces.live.com -o /dev/null 2>&1 | grep Content-Type
< Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8
This is what Camino will get:
McManaman:~ fishy$ curl -v http://spaces.live.com -o /dev/null -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070408 Camino/1.1b+" 2>&1 | grep Content-Type
< Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8
This is what Firefox will get:
McManaman:~ fishy$ curl -v http://spaces.live.com -o /dev/null -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0" 2>&1 | grep Content-Type
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
And this is what Safari will get:
McManaman:~ fishy$ curl -v http://spaces.live.com -o /dev/null -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3" 2>&1 | grep Content-Type
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
As you can see, for some common browsers, such as Firefox or Safari, live spaces server send the right Content-Type. For unknown browsers (including curl, Camino, etc.), it claims that it's "application/xhtml+xml". Oh my god, what did they think they are doing? What can they get from this Content-Type? I can't understand this at all.
So the only word I can say is, "live spaces suck, one more time"
