- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 18:19:12 -0400
- To: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler)
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
In message <199507282207.QAA05513@yellow.nmt.edu>, Benjamin C. W. Sittler write s: >What should the content-type: header for HTML 3 be? >text/html; level=3 This agrees with: "Toward Graceful Deployment of Tables in HTML" http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/table-deployment.html which is the closest thing to a spec on this issue. I have had no negative comments on this syntax. > Currently it uses application/x-css for >CSS stylesheets, application/x-navistyle for NaviPress stylesheets, >text/html for HTML 2 documents, and text/html; level=3 for HTML 3 >documents. Sounds good. >Also, are the MIME types in the Accept: header in any particular order >(i.e. preference?) I couldn't find this information in the online docs... >the reason I need to know is that I want to be able to send the client the >file format it most wants. Preference is indicated by the q=... parameter. I don't believe HTTP assigns any meaning to the order of the entries in an Accept: header. Let's check the spec and see... 5.4 Request Header Fields http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP1.0/HTTP1.0-ID_24.html Sun Mar 12 18:36:51 1995 |The field may be folded onto several lines and more than one |occurrence of the field is allowed (with the semantics being the same |as if all the entries had been in one field value). | |Accept = "Accept" ":" 1#( | media-range | [ ";" "q" "=" ( "0" | "1" | float ) ] | [ ";" "mxb" "=" 1*DIGIT ] ) |media-range = ( "*/*" | | ( type "/" "*" ) | | ( type "/" subtype ) | ) *( ";" parameter ) |float = < ANSI-C floating point text representation, | where (0.0 < float < 1.0) > | |The parameter q is used to indicate the quality factor, which |represents the user's preference for that range of media types, and |the parameter mxb gives the maximum acceptable size of the Entity-Body |(in decimal number of octets) for that range of media types. Dan
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