Re: A broken browser
Daniel DuBois (dan@spyglass.com)
Thu, 02 Jan 1997 21:04:52 GMT
On Thu, 02 Jan 1997 13:31:08 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
> if (q < 0.001)
> q =3D 0.001;
>We don't know how the compiler is losing that.
Are you using a Pentium?
(Sorry couldn't resist.)
> My understanding, so correct me if I'm wrong, is that the
>q's are preference ratings, so q=3D0.000 would be lowest preference,
>not an "I don't want that". If no wild MIME type is sent, and
In the history of q's, there was a HTTP/1.0 draft that specified the
algorithm for q's that is now left unspecified (awaiting definition, like
in the TCN draft). IIRC, it said q's should be multiplied together, and
that a q of zero meant 'None acceptable' in the literal sense AKA "I =
don't
want that". I've implemented in the past to that kind of mindset, so =
maybe
there are more like me out there. I don't believe a negotiating server
should send a document that has a q value of 0, and have said so in the
past. You may have indexing spiders that insist on only retreiving
text/html and text/plain for instance.
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Daniel DuBois, Traveling Coderman www.spyglass.com/~ddubois