Re: XHR LC comment: Accept header went from MUST NOT to SHOULD

2008-05-19 Thread Julian Reschke
Stewart Brodie wrote: If a server can't cope with it (evidence, please!), fix it. Some older versions of Microsoft IIS are the servers that I've come across that fail to cope with it. It is unrealistic to expect these to be undeployed any time soon. The comment in my code does not specify

Re: XHR LC comment: Accept header went from MUST NOT to SHOULD

2008-05-19 Thread Stewart Brodie
Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonas Sicking wrote: ... If */* is semantically the same as not sending the header at all, and the former works with more servers, I would prefer that we use the former. ... I would prefer not to silently change what the client requested.

Re: XHR LC comment: Accept header went from MUST NOT to SHOULD

2008-05-19 Thread Stewart Brodie
Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stewart Brodie wrote: If a server can't cope with it (evidence, please!), fix it. Some older versions of Microsoft IIS are the servers that I've come across that fail to cope with it. It is unrealistic to expect these to be undeployed any time

Re: XHR LC comment: Accept header went from MUST NOT to SHOULD

2008-05-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Jonas Sicking wrote: ... If */* is semantically the same as not sending the header at all, and the former works with more servers, I would prefer that we use the former. ... I would prefer not to silently change what the client requested. If a server can't cope with it (evidence, please!),

Re: XHR LC comment: Accept header went from MUST NOT to SHOULD

2008-05-16 Thread Laurens Holst
Julian Reschke schreef: Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:56:42 +0200, Laurens Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why was this changed? Why should user agents pretend that they know what kind of resource the user expects by setting an Accept header that is unreliable? FWIW,

Re: XHR LC comment: Accept header went from MUST NOT to SHOULD

2008-05-16 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:56:42 +0200, Laurens Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why was this changed? Why should user agents pretend that they know what kind of resource the user expects by setting an Accept header that is unreliable? FWIW, Internet Explorer and Safari