- From: Daniel DuBois <dan@spyglass.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 21:04:52 GMT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Thu, 02 Jan 1997 13:31:08 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > if (q < 0.001) > q = 0.001; >We don't know how the compiler is losing that. Are you using a Pentium? (Sorry couldn't resist.) > My understanding, so correct me if I'm wrong, is that the >q's are preference ratings, so q=0.000 would be lowest preference, >not an "I don't want that". If no wild MIME type is sent, and In the history of q's, there was a HTTP/1.0 draft that specified the algorithm for q's that is now left unspecified (awaiting definition, like in the TCN draft). IIRC, it said q's should be multiplied together, and that a q of zero meant 'None acceptable' in the literal sense AKA "I don't want that". I've implemented in the past to that kind of mindset, so maybe there are more like me out there. I don't believe a negotiating server should send a document that has a q value of 0, and have said so in the past. You may have indexing spiders that insist on only retreiving text/html and text/plain for instance. ----- Daniel DuBois, Traveling Coderman www.spyglass.com/~ddubois
Received on Thursday, 2 January 1997 13:09:24 UTC