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Posted to docs@httpd.apache.org by Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com> on 2001/08/26 04:50:21 UTC
Content negotiation
The docs for mod_negotiation say a number of different ways that the
module attempts to send to the client the document best suited to the
client's requirements. However, at no point does it indicate how it
goes about determining what the client's requirements actually are.
It's my understanding that this determination is based on the
<samp>Accept</samp> header sent by the client, but I am not at all
sure of this. I'll look in the source, but if someone can answer this
definitively, I'd be much obliged.
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Re: Content negotiation
Posted by Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>.
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote:
>
> > The docs for mod_negotiation say a number of different ways that the
> > module attempts to send to the client the document best suited to the
> > client's requirements. However, at no point does it indicate how it
> > goes about determining what the client's requirements actually are.
> >
> > It's my understanding that this determination is based on the
> > <samp>Accept</samp> header sent by the client, but I am not at all
> > sure of this. I'll look in the source, but if someone can answer this
> > definitively, I'd be much obliged.
> >
>
> This is explained in nauseating detail in manual/content-negotiation.html.
Ack. And there's a link right off the top of mod_negotiation.html
Sorry. A moment of blindness, I expect.
Thanks.
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Re: Content negotiation
Posted by Joshua Slive <sl...@commerce.ubc.ca>.
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote:
> The docs for mod_negotiation say a number of different ways that the
> module attempts to send to the client the document best suited to the
> client's requirements. However, at no point does it indicate how it
> goes about determining what the client's requirements actually are.
>
> It's my understanding that this determination is based on the
> <samp>Accept</samp> header sent by the client, but I am not at all
> sure of this. I'll look in the source, but if someone can answer this
> definitively, I'd be much obliged.
>
This is explained in nauseating detail in manual/content-negotiation.html.
Joshua.
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