This legacy browser behavior is frustrating in the extreme. Why in heaven's name would a tool meant primarily for viewing HTML, request XML as a higher quality representation? Just goes to show how uber-excited everybody was about XML once upon a time. You know, because in the future, all web pages will someday be XML with a reference to an XSL stylesheet, not HTML.
Choosing a different MediaType for your XML, that the browser doesn't ask for, is the usual solution. Another workable solution I have found -- if you are using XML and will get criticized for making up MIME types -- is to expose the browser-friendly HTML variant by itself on a distinct URI (e.g. person.html). That's sloppy too, just in a different way. Now, packaging your data with JSON instead of XML will avoid the issue altogether, without making up MIME types =) - R On 2/18/08, Stephan Koops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if a browser requests to a REST server, some browsers (Firefox and IE > for example, Opera not) requests text/xml and application/xml with a > higher quality than text/html.
