Re: Content Sniffing impact on HTTPbis - #155

Am Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:36:56 +0000 (UTC)
schrieb Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>:

> 
> Thanks to everyone for the various examples of pages that do content 
> negotiation.
> 
Now its going to get cynical, so I must join.

Please enter "telnet www.debian.org 80" at your command line and after
the connection is established enter either

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.debian.org
Accept-Language: de

or

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.debian.org
Accept-Language: en

The bags of bits will look quite different. Indeed they represent the
same content in different languages.

I must admit this example is a bit unfair on my side, because Debian
lacks everything that is important in WWW today (no advertising, no
data mining, no cross-side-whatsoever, no active content trying to
conquer your computer, just information).

Werner

P.S.: As far as I can remember there has been a lengthy discussion
about this terminolgy about halve a year ago. It ended in removing the
unnecessary term "variant".