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Re: Online Version Checking

On Saturday, June 26, 2004, at 12:59PM, J Nozzi <email@hidden> wrote:

> I'm actually having a problem with this.
>
> Recently, my hosting company moved my site to a Windows IIS server
>with no hope of going back to a *nix-based box. Since then, my version
>checking routine has been broken. Serving the version control file (a
>dictionary saved / served as a text file) from my own system works
>fine, but it gives me a parse error:
>
>-----
>2004-06-25 19:40:26.031 MyApp[5465] CFLog (0):
> CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not
>proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Resources/types.plist
> The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected
>in the plist.
>-----
>
> ... again, this works fine when hosted from my Mac. It's only when the
>versioncontrol.txt file is served from the IIS server that I get this
>error.
>
> The server is obviously modifying the content as it's being served.
>This could be fixed easily enough, I'm sure, by changing it to
>something like '.dat' and having the version info be served as an
>'application/octet-stream' but that doesn't help fix the problem for my
>existing users.

How, exactly, is the server modifying it? What information can you glean by diff'ing the two files?
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