Now that we have a decent XML processor, we can accept documents sent with a

media type which is unknown, if the media type follows the convention
"application/*+xml" (as a subset of the convention defined in RFC 3023 sec 7)
we'll treat it as incoming XML.

This should also fix http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4926

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/httpd/cgi-bin/check b/httpd/cgi-bin/check
index d38202a..68cd0d7 100755
--- a/httpd/cgi-bin/check
+++ b/httpd/cgi-bin/check
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # This source code is available under the license at:
 #     http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software
 #
-# $Id: check,v 1.564 2007-09-11 05:34:13 ot Exp $
+# $Id: check,v 1.565 2007-09-11 05:58:30 ot Exp $
 
 #
 # Disable buffering on STDOUT!
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Directory not readable (permission denied): @_r
 
   #
   # Strings
-  $VERSION =  q$Revision: 1.564 $;
+  $VERSION =  q$Revision: 1.565 $;
   $VERSION =~ s/Revision: ([\d\.]+) /$1/;
 
   #
@@ -1436,6 +1436,9 @@ sub parse_content_type {
         'http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url='
           . uri_escape $url;
       exit;
+    } elsif ($ct =~ m(application/.+\+xml)) {
+      # unknown media types which should be XML - we give these a try
+      $mode = "XML";
     } else {
       $File->{'Error Flagged'} = TRUE;
       $File->{Templates}->{Error}->param(fatal_mime_error => TRUE);