Re: [ANN] Beta test of the W3C Markup Validator (0.8.0 beta 1)

Shane McCarron wrote:
> 
> Forgive me for chiming in late on this, but...  While I agree with the 
> following:
> 
>> "If no Accept header field is present, then it is assumed that the
>> client accepts all media types."
>>
>> Since the validator sends no Accept header, it should be assumed that
>> the client accepts all media types. If your rule assumes that it
>> doesn't support XHTML because of that, then isn't that a flaw in the
>> rule?
> 
> That's fine.  Is there a clever mod_rewrite rule we can suggest for 
> people that means "when you see no accept header, do *this* for *that* 
> type of request" ?  I don't speak mod_rewrite that well.

The following will rewrite everything (.*), you might want to scope the 
rewrite rule to (\.html) instead:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} ^$
RewriteRule .* - [T=application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8]

- Sam Ruby