On Apr 23, 2013 12:50 AM, "Sergey Beryozkin" <sberyozkin_at_talend.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> Section 3.8 concludes with
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> 9. If M contains ‘*/*’ or ‘application/*’, set Mselected =
‘application/octet-stream’, finish.
> 10. Generate a NotAcceptableException (406 status) and no entity.
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> I'm seeing an early test failing where we have
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> Accept: text/*
> Produces: text/*
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> CXF produces: 200 + application/octet-stream, test expects 406.
> It is not a big problem for us to make sure that if a wildcard response
types does not meet requirements from 9, them it is 406 (as per 10.),
however, I wonder, should we always do 9. whenever a response type contains
"*", not only if it is a wildcard or application/* ?
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> It is kind of strange to get 406 returned when a match has been
successful.
I think it's a bug in the spec: if accepting text/something results in a
200 response while accepting text/* results in s 406 this goes against the
semantics imposed by http. The server should return text/something or
text/somethingelse. This is not about improving the algorithm but about
fixing it.
Glad you spotted this.
Cheers,
Reto
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> I can open a minor improvement request for 2.1 if you agree
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> Sergey
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