Re: [apps-discuss] RFC3023: Is note about HTTP Accept header wrong

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Thu, 01 September 2011 16:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] RFC3023: Is note about HTTP Accept header wrong
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* Raphael Bossek wrote:
>Study the RFC 3023 found the following note that seams to be incorrect
>for me. Here the note at page 17
>(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3023#page-17):
>
>NOTE: Section 14.1 of HTTP[RFC2616] does not support Accept
>headers of the form "Accept: */*+xml" and so this header MUST NOT
>be used in this way.

>Where is my mistake?

The assumption is that the second `*` above would be treated as a wild-
card rather than as part of the type name. That is not the case with RFC
2616, so `*+xml` refers to one subtype and not many.
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