Re: qvalue *

>> 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?

ry