[OT] Re: content negotiation with tomcat

[Jens Skripczynski <sk...@myrealbox.com>]

Reynir Hübner:
> ..now to the "off topic" discussion if this is a good concept or not : 
> I am not sure I am understanding the whole concept, I really understand why I 
> should do this with normal URLS ("human readable" and "bookmarkable", urls are good) 
> but I can't understand why I should want to do this with .gifs or .jpegs, or even 
> any other static content. The reasone for I am saying this is the fact when I click 
> a link I want to know if I am about to download a simple jpeg or a webpage or even a 
> pdf. I think that is something the user might want to know before clicking the link, 
> and I think that is a matter of browseability of a webpage. 
I belief this system is to used for all external available URL's. 

For exmaple images (the ever famous "valid html xxx" pictures do follow this example)
the official URL is 
'http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss'
'http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10'

So if sometime in the future the w3.org beliefs they should change ihe image
content from jpg to png these URL will still be valid.

Of course some dot jpg for a bullet list on a webpage is unlikely to be linked
by someone externally.

 
> The most probable cause for me not understanding the concept is the fact that I cannot 
> read the page : http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI as I always get some error response "Not Acceptable"....

> Maybe someone can clarify this for me ?
What Browser are you using ?

To me: lynx, Opera, IE work
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Ciao

Jens Skripczynski
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