- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:50:12 +0100 (BST)
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
> As a simple fix, I've released lq-nsgmls 1.3.4.4 [1] with Accept: */* in > place of Accept: text/*. > > [1] http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/src/lq-sp-1.3.4.4.tar.gz Ouch. In the absence of further discussion, I had meant to reply earlier on this. IIRC, Accept: */* is James Clark's original. I believe it is wrong I accept your (and Terje's) view that my fix is also wrong - for the reasons we have already discussed. If we use an Accept header, we need to give further thought to its value. As a fallback, we should drop it altogether. In terms of HTTP, this is clearly correct: * Accept: */* says "we accept absolutely everything" - which we most certainly don't. Accept: */* is appropriate to a browser with a default action (eg save to disc or prompt user), but not to SP. * If we drop the Accept: altogether, we are saying instead that we don't support this (optional) aspect of HTTP. In the absence of a complete solution, this is indeed true. Can I suggest we just drop it? -- Nick Kew
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