Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/14/60 11:26

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, cwdjrxyz@yahoo.com wrote:

> Leif K-Brooks wrote:
>
> > Your script will serve application/xhtml+xml to a browser with an Accept
> > header of "text/html,application/xhtml+xml;q=0.1', which is completely
> > broken behavior.

On a cursory inspection, it will send application/xhtml+xml to a client
agent which says it accepts it with q=0.0 - i.e explicitly refuses it.

> There is no problem with recent versions of Opera, Mozilla, Netscape,
> Firefox, IE6, MyIE2, MSN9, and another two more obscure browsers for
> which I have been sent screen shops.

What a silly attitude to take! Content-type negotiation has already been
implementated to specification[1] e.g in Apache; it's absurd to launch
this kind of half-witted implementation on the web, that only works on a
few known browsers (don't you know any other kinds of client agents, by
the way?).

[1] with a few minor tweaks to iron out some practical glitches.

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