Hi Daniel,
you might want to follow up on httbis mailing list; see
<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/118>.
That being said:
On 03.11.2010 15:31, Daniel Armak wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing HTTP proxy software and there's a detail of RFC 2616 that I
don't understand. Many headers (e.g. Accept-Encoding, Accept-Charset)
have grammar of the form 1#(...). However, there are two headers -
Accept and TE - that have grammar of the form #(...).
For Accept-Encoding: this was a bug. See
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/25>.
This difference seems to mean that an Accept header with no value is
explicitly allowed and, therefore, that it has different semantics from
a request with no Accept header at all. What are these semantics? As far
as I can make out, a request with Accept: present but with no value
should just result in a 406 Not Acceptable response. (Of course, some
servers ignore the request Accept header entirely.)
Best regards, Julian
