On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> 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 >
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]