Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/21/06 19:04

The Eclectic Electric wrote:

> To be honest, it was someone else's idea to interrogate the accept header
> and I'm not sure whether his or my interpretation of how HTTP works is
> correct (probably his!). He was implying that the browser sends up
> individual HTTP requests for each element of the page, which would mean it
> should indeed be possible to catch whether or not it was possible to send a
> gif for the favicon.

If my mind don't fool me, even a system that don't gif would request the gif
file if it's linked from the html and it's first locally at the client that
you will know if the gif was displayed or not, the browser won't send a
special "header" telling the web server what it's capable of doing.


//Aho

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