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From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] extensions of "interest"
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 2009 15:16:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc130904091216m13a09835k2a55a047b9593c32@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DE46EE.60200@proweb.co.uk>

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:05 PM, maht <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:
> andrey mirtchovski wrote:
>>
>> i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
>> specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
>> receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to
>> establish the available types of documentation (.doc, .pdf, .tex,
>> .rtf, etc).
>>
>>
>>
>
> 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?



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-09 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-09 17:17 ron minnich
2009-04-09 17:25 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 17:34   ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 17:40     ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 17:43     ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 17:48       ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 17:58         ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 17:59         ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 18:06           ` Anthony Sorace
2009-04-09 21:25           ` Steve Simon
2009-04-09 21:30             ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 21:31               ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 22:30                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-09 22:45                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-10 12:40                   ` John P. Cummings
2009-04-09 23:06                 ` Bakul Shah
2009-04-09 23:10                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-10  5:16                     ` lucio
2009-04-11 23:34                       ` Russ Cox
2009-04-12  2:42                         ` Anthony Sorace
2009-04-12  4:53                           ` lucio
2009-04-14  0:03                           ` dave.l
2009-04-09 23:10                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-10  5:05                     ` Bakul Shah
2009-04-09 23:20                   ` Robert Raschke
2009-04-09 19:05       ` maht
2009-04-09 19:16         ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-04-09 19:22           ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 19:40             ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 19:43             ` Mechiel Lukkien
2009-04-10  1:35       ` LiteStar numnums

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