Tim Bagot wrote: > At 2003-01-10T06:06-0000, Tom Pike wrote:- > > >>The validator does not seem to send an 'Accept' HTTP header. >> >>Therefore any code which checks the Accept header to determine what type >>of document to send will assume that the validator doesn't accept >>documents of the type that they are checking for (in my case >>application/xhtml+xml). > > > It doesn't make much sense to me for the validator to use content > negotiation. I'd normally want to validate a specific file (and typically > each variant in turn), and the server should make each variant available > on its own URI. > > > Tim Bagot > > Yes actually now that I think about it, it does make a lot more sense to do it that way. I'm now doing things a little differently. Also I wasn't aware that sending no Accept header is equivalent to sending "*/*;q=1.0" (didn't spot that in the HTTP specs) so this entire thread is somewhat irrevelant anyway. Sorry about that. -- Tom Pike tom.pike@xiven.com http://www.xiven.com/Received on Friday, 10 January 2003 12:59:52 GMT
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