On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:36:18PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> A server that doesn't support qvalues seems unlikely to fail the
> request - I would expect it to either ignore the qvalue, or treat it
> as an encoding "deflate;q=0.5" which it doesn't recognise. Neither of
> those would cause the request to fail.

The latter would cause the request to fail if the server only supports
deflate.

> Do you know of any servers which actually cause such a request to fail?

I'm not aware of any that would fail the request in a manner other than
mentioned above. In reality, it seems that servers themselves seem to
prefer gzip over deflate so adding a q= parameter isn't likely to make
much difference in practise.

>>> Dan

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