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| author | pcs <pcs@unknown> | 1998-12-04 18:37:06 +0100 |
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| committer | pcs <pcs@unknown> | 1998-12-04 18:37:06 +0100 |
| commit | f3ace6ab38f80f97ffb0e46d1df632a46252cb99 (patch) | |
| tree | 66187cd5e11707ac47b7803b760824c9ed003e69 /docs/manual/content-negotiation.html | |
| parent | Actually, without a DefaultLanguage documents are considered to have _no_ (diff) | |
| download | apache2-f3ace6ab38f80f97ffb0e46d1df632a46252cb99.tar.xz apache2-f3ace6ab38f80f97ffb0e46d1df632a46252cb99.zip | |
Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an unencoded
variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can accept that encoding.
Previously we always preferred the unencoded variant.
PR: 3447
Submitted by: Paul Ausbeck <paula@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>
Reviewed by: Paul Sutton
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@82443 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual/content-negotiation.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/content-negotiation.html | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/content-negotiation.html b/docs/manual/content-negotiation.html index 73e534e6f9..72d5a1356d 100644 --- a/docs/manual/content-negotiation.html +++ b/docs/manual/content-negotiation.html @@ -301,9 +301,12 @@ remains, move onto the next test. <LI>Select the variants with the highest 'level' media parameter (used to give the version of text/html media types). -<LI>Select only unencoded variants, if there is a mix of encoded - and non-encoded variants. If either all variants are encoded - or all variants are not encoded, select all. +<LI>Select the variants with the best encoding. If there are + variants with an encoding that is acceptable to the user-agent, + select only these variants. Otherwise if there is a mix of encoded + and non-encoded variants, select only the unencoded variants. + If either all variants are encoded or all variants are not encoded, + select all variants. <LI>Select only variants with acceptable charset media parameters, as given on the Accept-Charset header line. Charset ISO-8859-1 |