Re: [9fans] extensions of "interest"

[Mechiel Lukkien <mechiel@xs4all.nl>]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:22:48PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > > Already part of HTTP
> > >
> > > Accept: application/msword; q=1, application/pdf;
> > > q=0.5,application/x-troff-ms; q=0.3
> > >
> > > q is the level of preference, you'll get word docs first
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Wow. Could it get any worse?
>
> yes.  just read a few lines further in the rfc and note that
> there's also a "level" modifier.  it's not clear to me what
> level is supposed to do from their example.
>
>        Accept: text/*;q=0.3, text/html;q=0.7, text/html;level=1,
>                   text/html;level=2;q=0.4, */*;q=0.5

and there is more!

10.3.1 300 Multiple Choices

   The requested resource corresponds to any one of a set of
   representations, each with its own specific location, and agent-
   driven negotiation information (section 12) is being provided so that
   the user (or user agent) can select a preferred representation and
   redirect its request to that location.

   ...


mjl