[whatwg] Configure Apache to send the right MIME type for XHTML
Kornel Lesinski
kornel at osiolki.net
Wed Mar 7 16:08:30 PST 2007
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:52:08 -0000, Alexey Feldgendler
<alexey at feldgendler.ru> wrote:
>> Even your regular expressions for User-Agent aren't doing exactly what
>> you intended, because mod_rewrite does not anchor patterns.
>
> While I totally agree that browser sniffing isn't a way to go, I must
> say that Accept headers cannot be used to resolve this because MSIE
> claims to support */* in the Accept header that it sends.
And Googlebot claims to accept "application/*".
Despite that Accept header can resolve this issue. XHTML browsers include
full "application/xhtml+xml" MIME type, so you can avoid false positives
if you ignore wildcard matches in negotiation. While it's not perfect, I
think it's still better than using User-Agent for the same purpose.
--
regards, Kornel Lesiński
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