On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Marc Slemko wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 03:47:57 +0100 > From: Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Changed information for PR mod_negotiation/94 > > Am 07-Feb-97 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > But the mod_negotiation seems to have another problem: > > the vary-maps dont work at all, I ve set up a test with > a file picture.gif (62079 bytes) and a file picture.jpg (22578 bytes) > [...] > but I expected the picture.jpg here, because the file as .gif > is 62079 bytes and therefore larger than maxbytes.
If you are chatting with this person, remind them that if they use a var-map file then _NO_ information is read from the file system -- in particular, if they want file sizes to be taking into consideration, they must add them manually to the var-map (as "Content-Length: 62079" etc). If they do have this information in their map file, then it might be a bug. By the way, this can cause confusion because the file information is used when the variant is directly requested. For example, the type-map could say URI: fish.en.html Content-Language: de and it would be negotiated on as a German document, but when actually requested it would be marked as being in English. It might also be worth noting that maxbytes is not part of HTTP/1.1 so new browsers probably won't bother sending it (I'm not aware of any existing ones which sent it either). //pcs
