160022 - Need to be able to configure browser to http-accept: text/html; q=1.0

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Karsten Tinnefeld]

I keep pages running on an apache 1.3 browser using content negotiation under
the above uri. the problem is, I cannot use this configuration with mozilla 1.0
as browser, as regardless of the language and font choice, the server responds
to requests to e.g. the above uri with a 406 Not Acceptable.

This is due to the fact, that html text is not accepted with full consent, which
looks more politically correct than senseful on today's web.

I had rather have an oppertunity to turn the xml-preference feature off, as
content negotiation is a per-se very nice feature.

Unfortunately, I am not currently in the position to port the above site to
Apache 2.0, and I do not know whether this would change things. I'd anyway be
interested in an answer, if anyone knows.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

what version of apache 1.3 are you using?  a stock apache distribution shouldn't
have any trouble with mozilla's Accept header.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

user_pref("network.http.accept.default",
"text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=1.0,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1");

will do what you want.

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Yeah, but the mozilla default should be ok.. Can you give a test url which shows
this problem?

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/2002090311

This is weird. If I access URL above directly, I get the failure of the original
report. If I use web-sniffer, I get this:
http://webtools.mozilla.org/web-sniffer/view.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fls2-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de%2F%7Etinnefeld%2F&verbose=on

So there is some issue here.

Who is responsible for web-sniffer anyways, there is some suggestion I'd like to
make.

pi

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

pi: i don't know who "owns" the websniffer these days.  you might want to ask on
#mozilla.

with build 2003022308 under windows, i don't see a 406 response code.  maybe the
site changed?  marking WORKSFORME.

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

yeah, it looks like the server was upgraded to "Apache/2.0.44"

Comment 7

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

I can confirm that with 1.3b release Linux I don't have a problem with the
original URL. Also the websniffer gives 200.

pi