From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Do you understand this? Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:10:59 +0000 Message-ID: <422C8B23.109@gnu.org> References: <87sm38jyhm.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110215971 20017 80.91.229.2 (7 Mar 2005 17:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:19:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 18:19:30 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8LsF-0007EX-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:18:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8MC2-0000nA-6L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:38:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8M3g-0006LH-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8M3M-0006As-Lg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8M3L-00069G-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.207.198.106] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8LlP-0001rS-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:11:27 -0500 Original-Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id G29YBFR4; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:10:47 -0000 Original-Received: from 217.46.150.9 ([217.46.150.9] helo=[10.10.5.77]) by ASSP-nospam ; 7 Mar 05 17:10:41 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34286 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34286 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.