- From: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:16:03 -0800
- To: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Glenn Adams writes: > > 84. Section 14.2, pg. 93, 4th para., has "the server SHOULD send an > error response with the 406 (not acceptable) status code, though the > sending of an unacceptable response is also allowed." The effect of the > final clause of this statement is to downgrade SHOULD to MAY. Either > remove the final clause or change to MAY. [My preference is to remove > the final clause.] Note that the semantics stated here are expressly > different from Accept and Accept-Encoding which do require 406 > responses for unconditionally compliant implementations. This > inconsistency will make it difficult or impossible to implement > agent-driven content negotiation based on Accept-Charset variants. What is the correct fix here? Opinions solicited. - Jim
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