- From: Sergio Fernández <sergio.fernandez@fundacionctic.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:44:56 +0100
- To: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Cc: Diego Berrueta <diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>, Lourens van der Meij <lourens@cs.vu.nl>
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:22 +0100, Antoine Isaac wrote:
> I'd be curious, though, why such a rule has been set up in the
> Recipes. Once this document acknowledges that:
> "It is accepted as a principle of good practice that HTTP clients
> SHOULD include an 'Accept:' field in a request header,"
> then the rewrite rules could have been specified based on the Accept
> header only, couldn't they?
There is a section in the recipes document discussing this old issue
with IE [1]. Despite that I don't like it, this condition could be
improved with something like:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla/.*MSIE*
I might is not so easy to find a satisfactory solution with current
mod_rewrite capabilities.
Best regards,
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-swbp-vocab-pub-20080828/#defaultIE
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