[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 13377] New: Expose Accept* HTTP headers via SPI to applications

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13377

           Summary: Expose Accept* HTTP headers via SPI to applications
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 522+ (nightly)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.4
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Page Loading
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: contact at nickshanks.com


It would be useful for users to be able to modify the Accept, Accept-Language,
Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding and Accept-Ranges HTTP headers. For instance
Alexey has had trouble with some servers choking on languages with q-values,
and wanted them removed, whilst I would like to specify my own values for
(British) English, French and German, and do not come across servers that this
causes a problem on. I also don't want to use 1.0, 0.66 and 0.33 which is what
Firefox would assign the three languages if I put them in that order, but
perhaps 1.0, 0.4, 0.1 !
Note also that most browsers (Opera being the primary exception) send a
different set of MIME types in the Accept header depending on how the resource
request was generated (e.g. the main resource might want to accept */*, whilst
you'd be more choosy from an image, script or link element). See bug 3510 for
more on this.

Since there is no "one size fits all" solution to this, I suggest that the
headers are exposed via an API allowing UAs such as Safari to provide an
interface by which the user can set their own values for these headers.
Obviously this would be an advanced feature and suitable defaults still need to
be decided upon, but it would create the opportunity for users to configure
their systems for their own environment.


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