On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> > Accept: */*
>
> That sounds like the best default to me. Applications can narrow that
> themselves if they would like. What about leaving out the header
> altogether? Is that allowed, and would that have similar semantics? That
> would shave 12 bytes off every request.

I haven't done any thorough testing, but I am a bit concerned about what some
of the weird servers "out there" will do if we don't provide any Accept:
header at all. The standard sure allows leaving it out, but I think we have a
bigger chance for sensible data returned if we provide one.

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