• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@h...>
• Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:42:32 -0400

"Thomas B. Passin" wrote:

> Do you mean if the request is for a ".html" file, then that
> file is returned?  Because an HTTP request has no way to
> indicate a mime type for the returned data.

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.

See RFC 2616, section 14.1.

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