Wrong content type selected if multiple media types are supplied
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Key: DTACLOUD-53
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DTACLOUD-53
Project: DeltaCloud
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Server
Reporter: Tomas Von Veschler
Assignee: David Lutterkort
Priority: Minor
When setting the Accept header as for example: application/json, */* , seems
that */* is picked up and XML content is returned instead of JSON. This doesn't
follow the HTTP RFC (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.1):
Media ranges can be overridden by more specific media ranges or
specific media types. If more than one media range applies to a given
type, the most specific reference has precedence. For example,
Accept: text/*, text/html, text/html;level=1, */*
have the following precedence:
1) text/html;level=1
2) text/html
3) text/*
4) */*
How to test it:
$ curl --url http://192.168.0.194/api/hardware_profiles --show-error --header
"Accept: application/json, */*" -s -v 2>&1 | egrep '(Accept|Content-Type)'
> Accept: application/json, */*
< Content-Type: application/xml;charset=utf-8
$ curl --url http://192.168.0.194/api/hardware_profiles --show-error --header
"Accept: application/json" -s -v 2>&1 | egrep '(Accept|Content-Type)'
> Accept: application/json
< Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
This causes problems to all jQuery users, as it sends "Accept:application/json,
text/javascript, */*"
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