Re: A broken browser

Albert Lunde:
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>> 10.4.7 406 Not Acceptable [...]
>>   Note: HTTP/1.1 servers are allowed to return responses which are
>>   not acceptable according to the accept headers sent in the request.
>>   In some cases, this may even be preferable to sending a 406
>>   response. 
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>As I recall, the reason behind this provision in the spec was to
>make it possible, as a degenerate case, to write "10-line http servers"

No, I mainly included the above provision to make it possible for a
server to ignore the Accept headers if it knows that they are broken.

As for the interpretation of text/html;q=0: historically, q=0 means
`unacceptable', not `least acceptable of those listed'.  The
Accept-Charset section is somewhat explicit about this.  Transparent
content negotiation also uses q=0 to mean `unacceptable'.

Koen.