- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:52:03 -0800
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: "Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Jan 19, 2013, at 6:34 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Julian et al, > > I think the important bit here is the context that we're talking about the semantics of an expressed preference -- which can be freely ignored, or selectively applied, without affecting conformance. The important thing is that the preference itself have clear semantics, which I think Roy's change does (especially in concert with changes elsewhere). > > As such, I think the relevant question is whether this is specific to A-L, or all A-* that take qvalues. Roy, thoughts? I am pretty sure it is specific to languages. Accept has never been treated as an ordered list, Accept-Encoding was originally designed to prefer the smallest representation (changing that to qvalues was unfortunate), and Accept-Charset is almost deprecated at this point. ....Roy
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