Re: How can a php ng ban HTML tags posts?

grr wrote:
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:50:06 +0200, Michael Fesser <netizen@xxxxxx> wrote:

There's no need to strip such tags from a plain text document either.
It's perfectly OK to reject HTML attachments and many news servers do
that, but it's totally braindead to reject plain text postings just
because they contain some tags

If the post contains HTML tags then it isnt plain text.

Like the man said - use a different forum if you dont like that one.



Wrong. Whether a post contains html tags or not is immaterial. It is the Content-Type header which determines whether it is plain text or not.

A plain text post can contain html tags <b>like this</b> which will be ignored by news readers.

New servers should be looking at the content-type header - perhaps his news reader was setting the wrong content-type.

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