- From: <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:48:26 +0200
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>, masinter@parc.xerox.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Koen Holtman:
> Oh, I think I get it. What you are saying is that
>
> Accept: text/html, image/gif, */*;q=.5
> Accept-Charset: iso-8859-5
>
> is a shorthand for
>
> Accept: text/html;charset=iso-8859-5, image/gif;charset=iso-8859-5,
> */*;charset=iso-8859-5;q=.5
>
> but that
>
> Accept: text/html, image/gif, */*;q=.5
> Accept-Language: en
>
> is _NOT_ short for
>
> Accept: text/html;language=en, image/gif;language=en,
> */*;q=.5;language=en
>
> because you are not allowed to interpret `language' as a MIME type
> parameter, you must see it as a variant property completely separate
> from the MIME type of the variant.
Accept-language: was thought to interact with the Content-language:
header, not with anything in the MIME type field.
Harald A
Received on Monday, 18 September 1995 04:53:14 UTC