On 5/9/2013 2:47 AM, Jan Algermissen wrote:
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> On 09.05.2013, at 08:45, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 5/8/2013 6:10 PM, Jan Algermissen wrote:
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>>> On 08.05.2013, at 23:54, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>> I'm looking at:
>>>> com.sun.ts.tests.jaxrs.api.client.webtarget.JAXRSClient.requestNoArgTest();
>>>>
>>>> It seems that it expects ClientRequestContext.getAcceptableMediaTypes() to return "*/*" by default if there is no Accept header. Not sure I agree with this. The Javadoc says it returns the *requested* media types, i.e., what you specified in an Accept header. If there is no accept header,
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>>> " A request without any Accept header field implies that the user agent
>>> will accept any media type in response." .... aka */*
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>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-22#section-5.3.2
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>> Correct, so getAcceptableMediaTypes() should return an empty list as no specific media type was requested.
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> No, sending no Accept is equivalent to sending Accept: */*
>
Incorrect. The HTTP spec implies */*. In other words, that you should
assume */*. The javadoc, on the hand, talks about requested media
types. There was nothing requested explicitly.
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