Re: JSR311: URI-based conneg tweak

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From: Stephan Koops <Stephan.Koops_at_web.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:54:37 +0200

+1

Marc Hadley schrieb:
> URI-based conneg is specified as setting an "effective" value for the
> Accept and Accept-Language headers, the spec requires that the methods
> of HttpHeaders return the original values rather than the effective
> ones. The idea being to preserve the original request information.
>
> After more thought we think it would be more consistent if the
> "effective" values were used everywhere since those are the values
> used in matching and variant selection and it seems to odd to provide
> the original values for those headers since they are essentially ignored.
>
> Marc.