Closed
Bug 118696
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
inappropriate Accept request header field-values
Categories
(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)
Core
Networking: HTTP
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(Reporter: mnot, Assigned: darin.moz)
Details
Mozilla generates a static Accept header Accept: text/xml, application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/html;q=0.9, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif;q=0.2, text/plain;q=0.8, text/css, */*;q=0.1 no matter what kind of request it is making. For requests generated from img tags, it's inappropriate to send 'application/xhtml+xml', 'text/css' and the like. Suggest that: - for img requests (and similar, e.g., css stylesheet fetching, javascript inclusion, etc.), a context-specific Accept header be generated - for generic requests (from the browser bar or those from a links), the default Accept header be sent, *except* that image/* types be sent with a slightly lower q value. Mozilla is a hypertext browser, after all, and if there are both html and jpg representations of a resource, it should prefer the html, all other things equal. - when an a link contains a 'type' parameter, that media type should be added to the Accept header with the highest q value.
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Comment 1•23 years ago
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Also, Mozilla shouldn't send */* at all. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/cuap#cp-http-accept
Comment 2•23 years ago
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*/* is only harmful if the supported possibilities have not been exhausted, IMO.Anyway, this seems to be more or less covered by bug 82526. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82526 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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