[occi-wg] Content type and Accept

[Ralf Nyren]

Regarding no accept header RFC2616 says as follows:

   "If no Accept header field is present, then it is assumed that the
    client accepts all media types."

I would vote to follow the RFC until there is a clear reason not to =)

Thanks for pointing out the Accept header handling in the occi-py library.  
It did not take the quality preference into account.

I have uploaded a patch fixing this issue. You are most welcome to try it  
out. Just grab the 0.6 release, it contains the Accept header fix as well  
as the user-defined Mixin stuff.

regards, Ralf

On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:56:08 +0200, Gary Mazz <garymazzaferro at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Thanks Ralf,
>
> In some cases, ACCEPT is not part of the header.. Although this is  
> malformed, many web servers still respond with content_type as the  
> response type as a default behavior. Should we follow the same practice  
> ?   Then there is the issue of preferences for media type in the accept  
> ie
>
> Accept: text/*, text/html, text/html;level=1, */*
> have the following precedence:
>
>         1) text/html;level=1
>         2) text/html
>         3) text/*
>         4) */*
>
>
> I don't see where the preferences are prioritized in your code...
>
> -gary
>
> On 3/27/2011 12:15 PM, Ralf Nyren wrote:
>> Yes, they can indeed by different. You can for instance send your  
>> request as text/occi and except the response in text/plain.
>>
>> As the spec is written right now this is allowed and is in line with  
>> RFC2616. Think about how a web-browser POSTs a web-form. The request  
>> parameters are typically in "multipart/form-data" while the response is  
>> in text/html as dictated by the Accept header.
>>
>> The occi-py library (http://github.com/nyren/occi-py) supports this  
>> nicely.
>>
>> regards, Ralf
>>
>> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:14:48 +0200, Gary Mazz  
>> <garymazzaferro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just realized that Content Type of a HTTP request and the response  
>>> may
>>> be in different formats..
>>> Is this permissible, or should I rephrase, should we make this
>>> permissible or force them to be the same ?
>>>
>>> gary
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>>
>>
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