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Re: [media-types] HTTP replying with what clients don't support (Re: Last tracker issue for mediaman-suffixes)

Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Wed, 20 March 2024 03:29 UTC

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:28:45 +1000
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
To: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, Orie Steele <orie@transmute.industries>, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Michael Jones <michael_b_jones@hotmail.com>, IETF Media Types <media-types@ietf.org>, Darrel Miller <darrel@tavis.ca>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
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Subject: Re: [media-types] HTTP replying with what clients don't support (Re: Last tracker issue for mediaman-suffixes)
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2024, at 13:27, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> This, as I understand it, is a HTTP violation no matter how I hold it: 
> the server is responding with a media type that the client has said that 
> it did not support.

Content negotiation can be ignored.  This is not a violation of the protocol.  The response might not be useful, but it is valid.

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