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Re: #428 Accept-Language ordering for identical qvalues

"Adrien W. de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com> Sun, 20 January 2013 23:32 UTC

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From: "Adrien W. de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com>
To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
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------ Original Message ------
From: "James M Snell" <jasnell@gmail.com>
>+1.. in fact, for 2.0, I'd very much like to get rid of q-values 
>entirely and depend entirely on order.
>
same here.

The idea may have been laudable in 1998, but really, how can a web 
server tell if some resource is 80% better than another?  A human needs 
to tell it, and humans have enough trouble with other things.

the q=0 option would need to be turned into a Naccept-* header or 
something.   But does anyone even use it outside of testing for 406 
responses which never come?




>
>On Jan 20, 2013 1:54 PM, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>>
>>On 20/01/2013, at 11:52 PM, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Jan 19, 2013, at 6:34 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> >
>> >> Julian et al,
>> >>
>> >> I think the important bit here is the context that we're talking 
>>about the semantics of an expressed preference -- which can be freely 
>>ignored, or selectively applied, without affecting conformance. The 
>>important thing is that the preference itself have clear semantics, 
>>which I think Roy's change does (especially in concert with changes 
>>elsewhere).
>> >>
>> >> As such, I think the relevant question is whether this is specific 
>>to A-L, or all A-* that take qvalues. Roy, thoughts?
>> >
>> > I am pretty sure it is specific to languages.  Accept has never been
>> > treated as an ordered list, Accept-Encoding was originally designed
>> > to prefer the smallest representation (changing that to qvalues was
>> > unfortunate), and Accept-Charset is almost deprecated at this point.
>>
>>
>>So, wouldn't the same arguments (minus the implementation status) 
>>apply to Accept?
>>
>>I.e., if it's just a preference, and the server is free to choose 
>>among the preferences anyway (or even ignore them), why *not* say 
>>Accept is ordered?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
>>
>>
>>
>>

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