Re: A broken browser
Albert Lunde (Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu)
Thu, 2 Jan 1997 00:42:46 -0600 (CST)
> This interpretation is explicitly supported by the following, from the
> current draft[2]:
>
> --- begin ---
>
> 10.4.7 406 Not Acceptable [...]
> Note: HTTP/1.1 servers are allowed to return responses which are
> not acceptable according to the accept headers sent in the request.
> In some cases, this may even be preferable to sending a 406
> response.
>
> --- end ---
As I recall, the reason behind this provision in the spec was to
make it possible, as a degenerate case, to write "10-line http servers"
that pretty much ignored content negotiation and always returned
what they had handy...
I'm not sure how that affects your chain of reasoning...