Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
But a build script (or an aggregator) could ask for specific formats,
like "application/rss+xml" to get a feed with updated packages ;-)
Ah - now it gets interesting - so I could let my trusty (jabber enabled)
agent sit lurking an RSS feed, be able to poll my serve
> But IE doesn't specify a preference for HTML over XML, or any other text/*
> type. As I understand the specification, that would require the server to
> also use the user-agent for mapping, right?
Depends on the client; if it was asking for x-application/asf-distro then
it'd be a whole new se
> > I think in general ./ or ./index.html should return a human readable
> > form and ./index.xml should give machine readable form of the following
> Or use the Accept-type: as a selector.
Could you clarify your thoughts? I assume that you are refering to the
Accept: header as defined by RFC