>> But why ? If everybody does something else the wildcard >> can be simply deprecated. Or if desired fixed in some >> way, e.g., state that a wildcard <qvalue> greater or >> equal than the smallest non-zero <qvalue> elsewhere MUST >> be interpreted as *;q=0.001. Or SHOULD. Or something >> better than "dunno, who cares, toss a coin, get BOCU-1". > > Of course we can spend time on edge cases like these. > > But if we do, I'd prefer to talk about repeating Content-Length or > Content-Type headers first, because those may have security implications. Isn't the only use for q-value to give equal preference to several values? As far as I see it, the whole q-value topic is an edge case. I think it should be depreciated in favor of ordered lists. In the case where this might be meaningful, Accept-Language, UA do not give the ability of the user to specify something more detailed than an ordered list of perfered languages. Accept, Accept-Charset - who cares? Is an ordered list ever not enough? ryReceived on Monday, 4 August 2008 20:52:39 UTC
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