- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 19:36:06 +0900
- To: "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>
Dear HTTP WG, Please accept my appology for the double confusion: - Sending out the same change request just a few hours after Mark. - Not being able to find the text about the default value despite reading that subsection several times. Regards, Martin. At 16:07 08/05/07, Martin Duerst wrote: > >Dear HTTP WG, > >This was brought up in the LTRU WG by Mark Davis: > >>Unfortunately, the specs are ill-defined regarding the q values. Take the >>following example: >> >>a, b;q=0.7, c, d;q=0.5, e, f;q=0.9, g >> >>The specs do not distinguish between at least two different possible >>reasonable interpretations of what the q values of c, e, and g are: > * > c;q=1.0, e;q=1.0, g;q=1 // always 1 > * > c;q=0.7, e;q=0.5, g;q=0.9 // always same as previous >> Our guess is that the user meant #2, but it is only a guess. > >I read RFC 2616, and indeed didn't find any specification of >the defaults for q values in the case of Accept-Language. > >Looking at other subsections of Section 14, there is an explicit >default of q=1 for Accept and Accept-Charset, but I also didn't >find a default for Accept-Encoding. > >Please add this issue to your issue list unless you already >have it listed. > >Regards, Martin. > > >#-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University >#-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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