Re: Validator doesn't send HTTP_ACCEPT headers, "Conflict between Mime Type and Document Type" warning is incorrect.

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, David Dorward wrote:

> Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml;q=0
> would get an XHTML content type there.
> Just looking for substrings is not a good way of parsing Accept headers.

The whole idea of serving one and the same document with different
content-types to different browsers is so silly because IE ignores
the content-type:

http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/ignore-content-type.x.html
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/ignore-content-type.xhtml

Internet Explorer 6/7 is happy with "application/xhtml+xml" as long as
the URL ends in ".html". Some people just never get it.

Received on Wednesday, 1 August 2007 08:49:12 UTC