From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <3aaafc130904091216m13a09835k2a55a047b9593c32@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:40:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130904091240y244c1783u43a2a82ac3ef2183@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] extensions of "interest" Topicbox-Message-UUID: d83db6c4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM, erik quanstrom wrot= e: >> > Already part of HTTP >> > >> > Accept: application/msword; q=3D1, application/pdf; >> > q=3D0.5,application/x-troff-ms; q=3D0.3 >> > >> > q is the level of preference, you'll get word docs first >> > >> > >> >> Wow. Could it get any worse? > > yes. =A0just read a few lines further in the rfc and note that > there's also a "level" modifier. =A0it's not clear to me what > level is supposed to do from their example. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 Accept: text/*;q=3D0.3, text/html;q=3D0.7, text/html;level=3D= 1, > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0text/html;level=3D2;q=3D0.4, */*;q=3D0= .5 > I took a look at this page: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html And it seems to suggest that "level" is for picking between text/html and text/html [sic]