Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:56:42 +0200, Laurens Holst
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why was this changed? Why should user agents pretend that they know what
kind of resource the user expects by setting an Accept header that is
unreliable? FWIW, Internet Explorer and Safari set the (reasonably
acceptable */*), but it would be better to leave it out entirely. Also
see:
http://www.grauw.nl/blog/entry/470
It was pointed out by another Last Call comment that not setting the
Accept header causes servers to break. Given the results above I suppose
we could require that for XMLHttpRequest purposes it is at least always
set to */*. Would that work?
Not setting the Accept header means the same thing as setting it to
"*/*"
(<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.14.1.p.8>),
so these servers simply are buggy.
I think it's better not to add more workarounds, but to let the XHR
clients deal with these broken servers, by explicitly setting the header.
BR, Julian