[9245] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Variants support in the latest HTTP 1.0 Draft.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lilley)
Thu Nov 9 10:42:03 1995
From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
To: cvr@frontiertech.com
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 15:37:33 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org, timbl@w3.org, fielding@ics.uci.edu, frystyk@w3.org,
web@ns.frontiertech.co
In-Reply-To: <30A237C9-00000001@rock123> from "cvr@frontiertech.com" at Nov 9, 95 09:17:59 am
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
cvr said:
> I have a couple of questions on the support for variants in the latest
> HTTP Specs.
>
> 1. How does a client request the right variant from the servers?
> In the earlier specs of HTTP there used to be Accept: headers that
> would tell a server which kind of varint the client is interested -- by
> requesting desired Media-Type that included a charset, Language and/or
> Encoding.
> I am not clear why the Accept header and the Content Negotiation
> Algorithm are dropped from the latest specs?
They are not dropped from the *latest* spec. They have just moved. Look in
the HTTP 1.1 spec to find this sort of stuff. HTTP/1.0 spec describes best
current practice, ie what works now. HTTP/1.1 describes stuff like
Accept-Language which some servers (Apache) have started supporting.
--
Chris Lilley, Technical Author and JISC representative to W3C
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