priyanshu jain wrote:
Hi, I have one query regarding Accept Headers in HTTP Request. From our program, client is sending below headers in request... Type 1: Accept-Encoding : Gzip Accept-Encoding : deflate Normally accept headers is like that Type : 2 Accept-Encoding : Gzip, drflate. My questions are : 1. Whether above request headers format (Type 1)is acceptable (or correct).
It is correct.
2. If yes, then how the server will deal with it.
The same way as with type 2.
3. In RFC2616, where its defined that we can have multiple accept headers with same "filed-value", like we stated above (Type 1).
"Multiple message-header fields with the same field-name MAY be present in a message if and only if the entire field-value for that header field is defined as a comma-separated list [i.e., #(values)]. It MUST be possible to combine the multiple header fields into one "field-name: field-value" pair, without changing the semantics of the message, by appending each subsequent field-value to the first, each separated by a comma. The order in which header fields with the same field-name are received is therefore significant to the interpretation of the combined field value, and thus a proxy MUST NOT change the order of these field values when a message is forwarded." -- <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.4.2.p.5>.
BR, Julian
