- From: Maurizio Codogno <mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:06:44 +0200
- To: koen@win.tue.nl
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Koen wrote: % If you have comments on this text, now is the time to comment. I % intend to close this issue at the end of the week. This means that I % will send a last call for disagreement with perceived consensus, % together with a possibly improved version of the text below, in a few % days. % If no Accept header is present, then it is assumed that the client % | accepts all media types. If Accept headers are present, and if the % | resource cannot send a response which is acceptable according to % | the Accept headers, then the server should send an error response % | with the 413 (not acceptable) status code, though the sending of an % | un-acceptable response is also allowed. I don't agree with this: let's suppose I want an audio file, but I can read only .wav and no .au . Should I get the whole .au file and then notice that it is unreadable for me? It does not seem sensitive, especially since there is already a default to get any type (namely, no Accept line at all) Is it possible at least to state things in such a way that in 1.2 the situation will change (I don't know, maybe adding an Accept-Only header if people believe that my view is stupid)? After all, we have already a SHOULD, so it should not be that difficult to promote it to a MUST in the next version... .mau.
Received on Thursday, 4 April 1996 06:11:18 UTC