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Re: Q: Methods and Headers?

From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 23:53:08 PDT
Message-Id: <33F159D4.5D3EBB2@parc.xerox.com>
To: Andreas Brusinsky <brusinsk@ibdr.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Cc: HTTP workgroup <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>

Accept headers (and content negotiation in general) can be used on any
request to indicate the requestors preferences for responses to the
request. So an accept-language on a PUT, for example, could indicate the
preferred languages for error messages if the PUT were to fail.

Larry
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Received on Wednesday, 13 August 1997 08:38:03 EDT

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