> This interpretation is explicitly supported by the following, from the > current draft[2]: > > --- begin --- > > 10.4.7 406 Not Acceptable [...] > Note: HTTP/1.1 servers are allowed to return responses which are > not acceptable according to the accept headers sent in the request. > In some cases, this may even be preferable to sending a 406 > response. > > --- end --- As I recall, the reason behind this provision in the spec was to make it possible, as a degenerate case, to write "10-line http servers" that pretty much ignored content negotiation and always returned what they had handy... I'm not sure how that affects your chain of reasoning...Received on Wednesday, 1 January 1997 22:45:40 UTC
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