Re: distinguishing browser types

On Sat, 22 Apr 1995 wmperry@spry.com wrote:
>   So netscape can't do inlined HTML then, eh?  If all it sends are:
> 
> Accept: image/gif
> Accept: image/jpeg
> Accept: image/xbm
> Accept: */*
> 
>   Then a server should lump text/plain, application/postscript, text/rtf,
>   application/x-ms-word, and text/html all with the same rating, and is
>   free to send whichever it wants.  And application/x-ms-word would be the
>   'best' one to most servers.

Haha.  We ran into this as well with Apache - it seems some clients would 
rather get "mother.gif" than "mother.html".  :)

So, the server at least presumes "text/html; q=1" and "text/plain; q=1" if 
neither are explicitely mentioned.  Of course, that may result in a bad 
response to a VRML-only browser.....

	Brian

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Received on Saturday, 22 April 1995 21:46:42 UTC