Re: A broken browser
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:36:03 +0100 (MET)
Martin J. Duerst:
>
>Saying "Even ... allowed by 1.1" seems to assume that prefix matching might
>work better with
>
> Accept-L Content-L
> en en-us
>
>than with
> en-us en
I did not mean to imply this assumption, and I don't know if it would be
true.
>There is
>an asymmetry in 1.1 that is not justified.
When I got involved in HTTP, the above asymmetry already existed. I have
justified why we did not extend the matching rules to make it more
symmetrical, but I do not know the reason why the first matching rule was
there already. Maybe because all other accept/content pairs also have this
kind of matching.
>Regards, Martin.
Koen.