Re: Do you understand this?

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>Thanks to Andreas, Jason, and Nic I think I now understand the rfc2616
>HTTP specification a great deal better than before.
>
>Perhaps we should add the following to
>
>    emacs/man/url.texi
>
>after the text saying:
>
>    @node HTTP language/coding
>    @subsection Language and Encoding Preferences
>
>    HTTP allows clients to express preferences for the language and
>    encoding of documents which servers may honour.
>
>Is this now an accurate description?
>  
>
Yes.

>An @samp{Accept:} or @samp{Accept-Charset} statement or @samp{headers}
>allows you to specify the priority or weighing of the type of
>statement you would like to accept.
>
>  
>
In the Emacs manual, we need to explain how the user configures this in 
Emacs. Describing what RFC2616 says is not very useful if url provides a 
higher level interface for configuring language preferences. If the 
Emacs interface is simply providing a list of HTTP request headers, then 
we need to say that, or the user will think that these two headers are 
the only two they can configure.