- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:18:06 +0100 (MET)
- To: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr, ftang@netscape.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, Alan_Barrett/DUB/Lotus.LOTUSINT@crd.lotus.com, Ed_Batutis/CAM/Lotus@crd.lotus.comi18ngrp, bobj@netscape.com, mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch, www-international@www10.w3.org
Chris Lilley: > >On Jan 10, 7:53pm, Koen Holtman wrote: > >> > It would correct a >> > sitiation where browsers send a list of things they do accept, followed >> > by *, and this is (currently) often taken to mean exactly the same as >> > if they had only sent the *. >> >> In my opinion, this sitiatiomn should be corrected by changing the browsers >> to send good accept headers, not by changing the spec to mandate some kind >> of workaround in the server. > >Oh, certainly. I was just suggesting better defined behaviour for servers >talking with existing clients. It seems we agree then. I guess the heuristics to deal with existing clients could go into an implementation guide of some sort. >Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Koen.
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