- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 16:43:55 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
The transparent content negotiation draft (http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/conneg/) currently specifies the 300 response code for list responses. It turns out that this is not compatible with several existing browsers: lynx and some versions of Mosaic fail to display anything if they get back a 3xx class response without a Location header. As lynx in particular will be important for some people who want to offer negotiated material, this rules out use of the 300 response code in transparent content negotiation. I have done some checking, and it seems that the creation of a new response code: 416 List Response is the best way to get downwards compatibility. The question now is: does 416 indeed cause compatible behavior with all existing browsers? To find out, I have made a test page: http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/conneg/test-416.html and am calling for everyone who has a web browser other than NetScape, NCSA Mosaic, or Lynx to do the compatibility test on the page. This won't take longer than 20 seconds. I'll report a summary of the results back to the list. Thanks, Koen.
Received on Thursday, 8 August 1996 07:47:23 UTC