- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 18:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Roy Fielding wrote: > >is the new text in HTTP/1.0 or in HTTP/1.1? > > It will be in HTTP/1.0. > > >Is anyone presently using 406? > > I don't know, but it has long been known to be a missing feature > required to implement content negotiation correctly. In fact, it would seem like this would be the preferable way to do content negotiation without requiring hundreds of bytes of Accept: headers. A browser sends a small set of types it knows it can handle (html, gif, mpeg, etc), and if there are None Acceptible, it can select from the list of representations returned in the 406 response (by resending a request with just the content-type they want in the Accept:) Take that, lazy browser writers :) Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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