On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 09:48 -0500, Eric Woods wrote:
> I'm running Firefox on both the Windows and the Mac machines.  Michal is 
> right, forcing HTML via ?format=html in the URL does the trick.  It would be 
> odd if two instances of Firefox formed the request differently.  It could be 
> related to Firefox tooling I have installed on the mac.
> 
> I don't have access to the Windows machine atm, but Firebug on the Mac 
> indicates the following Accept header is used (with or without ?format=html 
> appended to the URL):
> Accept: 
> text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8,application/json
> 
> Since text/html is always given priority in the request header, it looks like 
> the server takes extra steps to handle the URL parameter correctly.  Thanks 
> for your help.

The problem is with your accept header: it says that you'd like
text/html, application/xhtml+xml, and application/json the best - which
one of these is the server's choice [1].

My FF (3.6.13) uses the same Accept header, but without the
application/json.

David

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html if you want to
    get into the gory details


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