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
