- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 11:10:17 +0200
- To: "Laurens Holst" <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>, "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:56:42 +0200, Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl> wrote: > Why was this changed? Why should user agents pretend that they know what > kind of resource the user expects by setting an Accept header that is > unreliable? FWIW, Internet Explorer and Safari set the (reasonably > acceptable */*), but it would be better to leave it out entirely. Also > see: > > http://www.grauw.nl/blog/entry/470 It was pointed out by another Last Call comment that not setting the Accept header causes servers to break. Given the results above I suppose we could require that for XMLHttpRequest purposes it is at least always set to */*. Would that work? -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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