Incorrect negotiation of encoding

[Florent Guillaume <gu...@clipper.ens.fr>]

The current negotiation code is such that, if you request "somefile" and
only "somefile.gz" is available, then nothing is served.

This is because my browser doesn't send any Accept-Encoding (BTW, does
ANY browser send Accept-Encoding ?), and the negotiation code refuses to
serve an encoded version in that case.

But I think this is incorrect, as draft-ietf-http-v10-spec-01, chapter 9
(Content negotiation) says :

	If the variant has no assigned Content-Encoding, or if no
	Accept-Encoding field is present, the value assigned is "qe=1"

If you agree with me, then here's a patch :

	Florent



*** mod_negotiation.c.orig	Tue Aug  1 02:47:18 1995
--- mod_negotiation.c	Wed Aug  9 19:45:54 1995
***************
*** 907,912 ****
--- 907,917 ----
      var_rec *var_recs = (var_rec*)neg->avail_vars->elts;
      int i;
  
+     /* If no Accept-Encoding is present, everything is acceptable */
+ 
+     if (!neg->accept_encodings->nelts)
+ 	return;
+ 
      /* Lose any variant with an unacceptable content encoding */
  
      for (i = 0; i < neg->avail_vars->nelts; ++i)