From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 21:43:19 +0200 From: Mechiel Lukkien To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20090409194319.GB8655@knaagkever.ueber.net> References: <3aaafc130904091216m13a09835k2a55a047b9593c32@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: [9fans] extensions of "interest" Topicbox-Message-UUID: d863b798-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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