- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:09:09 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: jg@w3.org
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
>From the Memphis minutes:
-- Koen Holtman
will draft a clarification that a qvalue of 0.0 means "Don't send
me this."
The clarification (taken from the slide I showed in the Memphis
evening session) is one new sentence in section 3.9 of the 1.1 spec.
The new sentence is between ** **.
3.9 Quality Values
HTTP content negotiation (section 12) uses short "floating point"
numbers to indicate the relative importance ("weight") of various
negotiable parameters. A weight is normalized to a real number in the
range 0 through 1, where 0 is the minimum and 1 the maximum value.
**If a parameter has a quality value of 0, then content with this
parameter is `not acceptable' for the client.**
HTTP/1.1 applications MUST NOT generate more than three digits after
the decimal point. User configuration of these values SHOULD also be
limited in this fashion.
Koen.
Received on Tuesday, 22 April 1997 01:04:47 UTC