ISSUE-58

.htaccess 'accept header' ONLY responds to a header which EXACTLY matches

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Recipes

Raised by:

Jon Phipps

Opened on:

2007-07-17

Description:

Per Tim BL

"The recipe for responding to an accept header only responds to a header which
EXACTLY matches "application/rdf+xml". However, a client may send (and often
will) a header with many  comma-separated values, and they may have quality
parameters (q=0.xx).

This is a serious problem as people are copying the recipe, and making sites
which do not work."

This applies to Recipes 3, 4, 5 and references this part of the .htaccess Apache
configuration:

"...

# Rewrite rule to serve RDF/XML content if requested 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/rdf\\+xml

..."

The rewrite condition regular expression: "application/rdf\\+xml" 
needs to be rewritten

Related emails:

1. ISSUE-58: .htaccess \\'accept header\\' ONLY responds to a header which EXACTLY matches \\'application/rdf+xml\\' (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2007-07-17)
2. Re: [Recipes] ISSUE-58: .htaccess 'accept header' ONLY responds to a header which EXACTLY matches \\'application/rdf+xml\\' (from diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org on 2007-07-18)
3. RE: [Recipes] ISSUE-58: .htaccess 'accept header' ONLY responds to a header which EXACTLY matches \\'application/rdf+xml\\' (from A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk on 2007-07-24)
4. Re: [Recipes] ISSUE-58: .htaccess 'accept header' ONLY responds to a header which EXACTLY matches \\'application/rdf+xml\\' (from diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org on 2007-07-25)
5. RE: [Recipes] ISSUE-58: .htaccess 'accept header' ONLY responds to a header which EXACTLY matches \\'application/rdf+xml\\' (from A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk on 2007-07-30)
6. RE: [Recipes] ISSUE-58: .htaccess 'accept header' ONLY responds to a header which EXACTLY matches \\'application/rdf+xml\\' (from diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org on 2007-08-06)
7. Re: Agenda - Sep 04 2007 SWD telecon - 1500 UTC (from diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org on 2007-09-04)
8. [ALL] Discussion of 'Recipes' in Amsterdam (from baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de on 2007-09-04)
9. [ALL] Agenda - Sep 18 2007 SWD telecon - 1500 UTC (from baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de on 2007-09-15)
10. [RECIPES] Amsterdam topic 'Recipes' (from baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de on 2007-09-15)
11. Re: [ALL] Agenda - Sep 18 2007 SWD telecon - 1500 UTC (from qreul@csd.abdn.ac.uk on 2007-09-18)
12. Re: [ALL] Agenda - Sep 18 2007 SWD telecon - 1500 UTC (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2007-09-18)
13. [Recipes] roadmap to the next draft (from diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org on 2008-03-11)
14. Re: [Recipes] roadmap to the next draft (from jphipps@madcreek.com on 2008-03-11)
15. Meeting record: 2008-03-11 telecon (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-03-12)
16. Re: [Recipes] Open issues in Recipes (from diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org on 2008-10-04)
17. Re: [Recipes] Open issues in Recipes (from diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org on 2008-10-09)

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