- From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:42:01 +0100 (MET)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- cc: Alan_Barrett/DUB/Lotus.LOTUSINT@crd.lotus.com, www-international@w3.org, bobj@netscape.com, wjs@netscape.com, Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr, erik@netscape.com, Ed_Batutis/CAM/Lotus@crd.lotus.com
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Larry Masinter wrote: > #However, I am worried that the Accept-Charset may not take a "*" wildcard > #parameter. Does anyone know? > > http://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-07.txt > > > If no Accept-Charset header is present, the default is that any > > character set is acceptable. If an Accept-Charset header is present, and > > if the server cannot send a response which is acceptable according to > > the Accept-Charset header, then the server SHOULD send an error response > > with the 406 (not acceptable) status code, though the sending of an > > unacceptable response is also allowed. Does the 406 response include some information on what "charset"s would indeed be acceptable? If not, some of the considerations that I made in other mails to this list seem to suggest that "sending an unacceptable response" may be rather better than not sending anything. Regards, Martin.
Received on Thursday, 5 December 1996 06:43:18 UTC