My guess:

There are some Apache settings to serve the "Monastery Gates" better to bots which are not up to date.

PS: Pale Moon looks interesting. Would be nice to know if it still supports the mozrepl add-on. This would also give WWW::Mechanize::Firefox a lifeline.

I think your browser does a better guessing when charset is missing in the headers.

In all honesty I suspect it is just luck. Under Tools->Preferences->Content->Fonts & Colours->Advanced->Fallback Character Encoding I have "Default for Current Locale" set. The $LANG is en_GB.UTF-8 but viewing the not-logged-in Monastery Gates the content encoding under View->Character Encoding is "Western", ie. Latin-1. But under "View Page Info" it is "windows-1252". Make of that what you will.

Pale Moon looks interesting.

It is indeed. I've been using it for the past 11 months and it is, in general, really very good - like how Firefox used to be before they canned all the useful stuff and broke most of the add-ons. I've not knowingly used mozrepl so can't comment on that.

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> I've not knowingly used mozrepl so can't comment on that.

I couldn't find mozrepl on Pale Moon's page and doesn't seem to be listed anymore as add-on on FF's pages. But I found this, which sounds promising ... :)

> Pale Moon supports all my extensions: MozRepl, Firebug, PageSpeed, DOMInspector, Yahoo and NetExport. I can generate profiles programmatically with a few small modifications to the script (the profiles.ini is located in a different directory, for example, and palemoon -v doesn’t print ‘Mozilla Firefox’ obviously). MozRepl and its Perl interfaces work like a charm.

Cheers Rolf
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