- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:56:23 -0700
- To: Sean Owen <srowen@google.com>
- Cc: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>, public-bpwg-comments@w3.org, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 10, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > > It's an interesting point. RFC 2616 says in 14.1 that Accept *can* > indicate desired types this way, and 10.4.7 says that servers can even > return a type not listed in the Accept header in some cases. I bring > it up to make the point that Accept seems to be advice, and doesn't > have to exactly enumerate acceptable types. > > It seems standard practice that user agents send a fixed string > listing all of what they support each time. At least for desktop browsers, that is not the case. They would send a different Accept: header when requesting the main document, when requesting a CSS stylesheet, when requesting an image for an <img> element, when requesting a script, etc. Regards, Maciej
Received on Monday, 11 June 2007 05:56:40 UTC