- From: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:12:14 +0100
- To: Sergio Fernández <sergio.fernandez@fundacionctic.org>
- CC: Diego Berrueta <diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>, Lourens van der Meij <lourens@cs.vu.nl>
Hi Sergio,
Sorry for the last comment. I'm really a newcomer, and ignored that IE sends "Mozilla" in its User Agent header. So your trick should do it!
Antoine
>
> Hi Sergio,
>
>>> 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
>
> I can understand that there would be a special rule for IE because of
> the value of the 'q' paramater and the catch-all Accept. But why putting
> something for Mozilla, which has the 'right' header policy? We could
> just have no Mozilla-specific condition, that is, relying only on the
> Accept header for Mozilla.
>
> Best,
>
> Antoine
>
>
Received on Friday, 13 February 2009 11:12:50 UTC