Hi abdera folks, Not sure if this is important, but I was doing some work on implementing server-driven conneg for an atom protocol implementation yesterday and noticed that the default accept header sent by abdera client 1.1.1...
application/atom+xml;type=entry, application/atom+xml;type=feed, application/atom+xml, application/atomsvc+xml, application/atomcat+xml, application/xml, text/xml, */* ...could probably do with some quality values. As it is, because there are no q-values, if the server has a slight preference for anything other than atom, then the abdera client will *not* get atom, because of the catch-all "*/*". Dealing with this kind of accept header requires the server to fiddle q-values as described in the apache server conneg docs [1]. While many servers implementing conneg will probably fiddle quality scores as per apache, abdera client might better send an accept header like: application/atom+xml;type=entry; q=1.0, application/atom+xml;type=feed; q=1.0, application/atom+xml; q=1.0, application/atomsvc+xml; q=1.0, application/atomcat+xml; q=1.0, application/xml; q=0.5, text/xml; q=0.5, */*; q=0.01 Cheers, keep up the great work. Alistair [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/content-negotiation.html#better -- Alistair Miles Head of Epidemiological Informatics Centre for Genomics and Global Health <http://cggh.org> The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Roosevelt Drive Oxford OX3 7BN United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)1865 287669
