- 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?
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Nick Kew
Received on Thursday, 19 April 2001 15:50:26 UTC