12790 - "accept:"-header missing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 11364

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

Mozilla Milestone M9 no longer sets the "accept:" etc headers.

Mozilla 4.61 sets the followin headers:
-- snip --
 connection: Keep-Alive
 accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*
 accept-charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
 accept-encoding: gzip
 accept-language: en
 host: puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de
 referer: http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/servlets/
 user-agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u)
-- snip --

Mozilla M9 only sets the following headers:
-- snip --
host: puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de
user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 [en] (Unix; I)
-- snip --
(This is very POOR...)

The "accept:-header should contain the following lines:
accept: text/html, text/xml, image/png, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg,
image/pjpeg
and so on.
To be be RFC-conformat, each plugin MUST be listed here (e.g.
application/x-shockwave etc.)

What about the */* in the accept:-line ?? IMHO be should set the quality to 0.01
to say the server that */* is always a bad choice and should be used as the LAST
alternative...

Misc:
- Tested with Win32 and an own Solaris 7 sparc build
- Marked as a blocker because this breaks all attempts to detect a XML-able
browser (e.g. text/xml in accept:-header)...

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Bug 2808 has the same theme (text/xml missing in accept header - now the whole
accept:-line is gone =:-)

Comment 2

[Warren Harris]

*** Bug 13393 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Judson Valeski]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11364 ***

Comment 4

[leger]

Bulk move of all Necko (to be deleted component) bugs to new Networking

component.

Comment 5

[Sam Allen]

verified