- From: Asir Vedamuthu <asirv@webmethods.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:34:22 -0700
- To: 'Hugo Haas' <hugo@w3.org>, David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: Web Services Description <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
> Actually, we may want to regard this as a bug: > it is desirable to have a syntax for expectedMediaType > compatible with the HTTP Accept header syntax. +1 to consider that as a bug (see [1]). According to prose [2], "The type of the expectedMediaType element information item is xs:string. The value of the expectedMediaType element is similar to the value allowed for the 'Accept' header defined by HTTP 1.1 specification, Section 14.1 [IETF RFC 2616]." [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2004Jun/0246.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xml-media-types-20040608/#expectedMediaType Asir -----Original Message----- From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Haas Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:28 AM To: David Orchard Cc: Web Services Description Subject: expectedMediaType and Accept header syntax (was Re: Action item: HTTP binding for accepts header and output Serialization.) * David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com> [2004-06-24 03:59-0700] > huh. If the expected media type uses spaces as separators, then this is > a different string than the HTTP accept header. And thus the media type > cannot be used to create the accept header. Voila, problem about > relating the two of them is solved, as there is some application > specific relationship. Actually, we may want to regard this as a bug: it is desirable to have a syntax for expectedMediaType compatible with the HTTP Accept header syntax. This can be done simply by making expectedMediaType a comma-separated list of expectedMediaTypeItem by using the appropriate regular expression, which I'm afraid will be complex. Also, I just realized that our syntax doesn't accomodate accept-params[1]. Regards, Hugo 1. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.1 -- Hugo Haas - W3C mailto:hugo@w3.org - http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/
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