[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 27267] HTTP Accept header gives preference of XML over HTML

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27267


Sven-S. Porst <ssp-web at earthlingsoft.net> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Sven-S. Porst <ssp-web at earthlingsoft.net>  2010-04-28 07:10:17 PST ---
I had troubles with Safari on author URLs at the arXiv preprint server:

e.g. http://arxiv.org/a/bahns_d_1

While this works perfectly in Firefox (returning and displaying HTML content,
presumably because it has text/html as its first accept header), it gives a
poor experience in Safari because the server takes the application/xml Accept
header as a hint that we'd really prefer prefer XML/Atom format content and
then redirects to the Atom feed. That, in turn, causes Safari to not display
the page at all on my machine but to  launch my separate RSS reader and open it
there. I.e. it results in rather annoying behaviour.

Just in case you needed another example where the difference in Accept headers
causes real-world differences in the results seen by the user.

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