Re: Java Browser

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

> FWIW, the interpretation of what's going on here really depends on what
> Accept: headers HotJava is sending.  If it's just sending "Accept: */*",
> or nothing at all, then Apache could very well be shipping back something
> like a jpeg variant, which HotJava legitimately can't handle (it only
> does gif, at least in the alpha versions).  I'd be really surprised if
> it actually needed a file extension, though...
> 
> rst

A little more info...

The browser is sending the following Accept: header

Accept: text/html,image/gif,*,q=.2,*/*,q=.2

In the cases where it failed to load an image, there was no other
variant besides a .gif.  I've gotten in the habit of writing the
HTML to request *most* files without an extension so that they
could be changed rather painlessly.

What's the effect of the single '*'?

Could someone give me a server interpretation of this?