[Lazarus] TProcess, UTF8, Windows

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, waldo kitty wrote:

> On 4/15/2012 05:25, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>> On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
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>>>>>> When I go to "http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcdocs/trunk" it is empty.
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>>> I just found out that active scripting is required for
>>> this web page (I use the FireFox NoScript plugin).
>>> Is there a reason for this?
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>> You are wrong. No scripting is needed for this page.
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>> It is simply not meant for viewing in a browser, it returns XML used by a 
> SVN
>> client.
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>> If you want to browse the repository, use the viewvc interface:
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>> http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/?root=docs
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> http does not denote that a browser is the default and main client to use for 
> viewing this data?? that's a new one on me :? :(

It does not. HTTP denotes a client/server communication protocol.

Nowhere does the HTTP protocol specify that the content must be displayable.
It just happens to be the protocol used by a browser. And if the payload is
HTML, then the browser can display it directly.

Michael.