Regarding no accept header RFC2616 says as follows: "If no Accept header field is present, then it is assumed that the client accepts all media types." I would vote to follow the RFC until there is a clear reason not to =) Thanks for pointing out the Accept header handling in the occi-py library. It did not take the quality preference into account. I have uploaded a patch fixing this issue. You are most welcome to try it out. Just grab the 0.6 release, it contains the Accept header fix as well as the user-defined Mixin stuff. regards, Ralf On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:56:08 +0200, Gary Mazz <garymazzaferro@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Ralf,
In some cases, ACCEPT is not part of the header.. Although this is malformed, many web servers still respond with content_type as the response type as a default behavior. Should we follow the same practice ? Then there is the issue of preferences for media type in the accept ie
Accept: text/*, text/html, text/html;level=1, */* have the following precedence:
1) text/html;level=1 2) text/html 3) text/* 4) */*
I don't see where the preferences are prioritized in your code...
-gary
On 3/27/2011 12:15 PM, Ralf Nyren wrote:
Yes, they can indeed by different. You can for instance send your request as text/occi and except the response in text/plain.
As the spec is written right now this is allowed and is in line with RFC2616. Think about how a web-browser POSTs a web-form. The request parameters are typically in "multipart/form-data" while the response is in text/html as dictated by the Accept header.
The occi-py library (http://github.com/nyren/occi-py) supports this nicely.
regards, Ralf
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:14:48 +0200, Gary Mazz <garymazzaferro@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I just realized that Content Type of a HTTP request and the response may be in different formats.. Is this permissible, or should I rephrase, should we make this permissible or force them to be the same ?
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