- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 15:37:33 +0000 (GMT)
- To: cvr@frontiertech.com
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org, timbl@w3.org, fielding@ics.uci.edu, frystyk@w3.org, web@ns.frontiertech.co
cvr said: > I have a couple of questions on the support for variants in the latest > HTTP Specs. > > 1. How does a client request the right variant from the servers? > In the earlier specs of HTTP there used to be Accept: headers that > would tell a server which kind of varint the client is interested -- by > requesting desired Media-Type that included a charset, Language and/or > Encoding. > I am not clear why the Accept header and the Content Negotiation > Algorithm are dropped from the latest specs? They are not dropped from the *latest* spec. They have just moved. Look in the HTTP 1.1 spec to find this sort of stuff. HTTP/1.0 spec describes best current practice, ie what works now. HTTP/1.1 describes stuff like Accept-Language which some servers (Apache) have started supporting. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author and JISC representative to W3C +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | Timezone: UTC URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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