- From: Cameron Heavon-Jones <cmhjones@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:23:47 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Mirko Gustony <mirko.gustony@gmail.com>, thibault <thibault@miximum.fr>, public-html-comments@w3.org
On 13/12/2011, at 3:25 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2011-12-13 16:13, Cameron Heavon-Jones wrote: >> >> On 13/12/2011, at 3:04 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: >> >>> Different clients have different expectations on the response payload they get for a successful DELETE, though. Most non-HTML clients do not care about any additional information, so sending more than a status message is a waste of bits. >> >> Why is the client advertising that it "Accept: text\html" if it doesn't want it? Seems like it is requesting a waste of bits. >> >> if it wants a simple status message it should "Accept: text\plain" or some such other. > > If everything was written from scratch, maybe. But it isn't. > > Servers have sent HTML-typed status messages for over a decade now, and the HTTP spec even recommends it in several places. > > Best regards, Julian > Fine, but as a backward-compatibility issue some wasted bits being sent to legacy clients which don't do anything with them anyway seems like a small issue. Thanks, Cam
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