- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:36:03 +0100 (MET)
- To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, masinter@parc.xerox.com, cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@http-wg.uucp
Martin J. Duerst: > >Saying "Even ... allowed by 1.1" seems to assume that prefix matching might >work better with > > Accept-L Content-L > en en-us > >than with > en-us en I did not mean to imply this assumption, and I don't know if it would be true. >There is >an asymmetry in 1.1 that is not justified. When I got involved in HTTP, the above asymmetry already existed. I have justified why we did not extend the matching rules to make it more symmetrical, but I do not know the reason why the first matching rule was there already. Maybe because all other accept/content pairs also have this kind of matching. >Regards, Martin. Koen. uage. It is perfectly reasonable to tag a document as "en", and it is perfectly reasonable for a user to set preferences for "en-us", and it would make perfect sense for a server to match the two if it matches them the other way round. Regards, Martin.
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