- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:03:51 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Nick Kew wrote: > > 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? It's dropped in the just-released lq-nsgmls 1.3.4.5. -- Liam Quinn
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