From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Do you understand this? Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87sm38jyhm.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110148279 16586 80.91.229.2 (6 Mar 2005 22:31:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 23:31:19 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D84HA-0001ir-D3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:31:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D84ao-0006Cn-Fk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:51:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D84ZE-0005jI-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:49:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D84Z1-0005dX-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D84Z0-0005ba-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D84J5-0003Fa-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:33:03 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <87sm38jyhm.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> (message from Nic Ferrier on Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:44:21 +0000) 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:34251 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34251 Accept: text/plain; q=0.5, text/html, text/x-dvi; q=0.8, text/x-c If sent in an HTTP request for a resource /fred the above Accept headers tells the server that the user will ideally accept /fred as an HTML document or a text/x-c document. I do not understand. Am I right in formatting the statement such that semi-colons have a higher precedence than commas? And that a grouping is between semi-colons? If that is the case, then the above sequency looks to me to favor * text/x-c as the highest priority; * text/html, text/x-dvi both equally as the second priorty; and, * text/plain as the third, lowest priority. But I do not know anything about this and would like to be told more. An alternative formatting is that semi-colons precede q settings, and that if a format lacks a q setting, it has the highest priority. Thus, the above could be formatted like this Accept: text/plain; q=0.5, text/html, text/x-dvi; q=0.8, text/x-c and mean the same as Accept: text/plain ; q=0.5, text/html, text/x-dvi; q=0.8, text/x-c ; q=1.0 Is this the case? Thank you. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc