Re: Advanced Status Reporting and XML vs HTML

"Roy T. Fielding" wrote:

> Accept headers are a bad idea.  They have always been a bad idea.
> A better solution is to provide the client with the primary content
> choice and a means of obtaining the new content.

But, in this case, the content is an error message; this approach would require
that the error message be stored on the server for a time, available at (say)
some other URL.  That's kind of an unpleasant requirement--especially if the
error that's being reported is "disk full".

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