• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:09:06 -0400

At 10:42 AM 10/23/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Sure it does.  Sending the header "Accept: text/html" with the
>request means you want HTML and nothing else.  A conformant server
>that has no HTML version available must respond with a 406 error.

If it weren't for the fact that most browsers (and a number of other
applications copying the move) send out "Accept:*/*", this might even be
useful.

What is it?  "Be conservative in what you send, generous in what you
accept."  A great idea that don't always pay off as expected.


Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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