RFC 2295 (rfc2295) - Page 2 of 58
Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP
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RFC 2295 Transparent Content Negotiation March 1998
4.8 Feature negotiation......................................15
4.9 Length of variant lists..................................16
4.10 Relation with other negotiation schemes.................16
5 Variant descriptions.......................................17
5.1 Syntax...................................................17
5.2 URI......................................................17
5.3 Source-quality...........................................18
5.4 Type, charset, language, and length......................19
5.5 Features.................................................19
5.6 Description..............................................19
5.7 Extension-attribute......................................20
6 Feature negotiation........................................20
6.1 Feature tags.............................................20
6.1.1 Feature tag values.....................................21
6.2 Feature sets.............................................21
6.3 Feature predicates.......................................22
6.4 Features attribute.......................................24
7 Remote variant selection algorithms........................25
7.1 Version numbers..........................................25
8 Content negotiation status codes and headers...............25
8.1 506 Variant Also Negotiates..............................25
8.2 Accept-Features..........................................26
8.3 Alternates...............................................27
8.4 Negotiate................................................28
8.5 TCN......................................................30
8.6 Variant-Vary.............................................30
9 Cache validators...........................................31
9.1 Variant list validators..................................31
9.2 Structured entity tags...................................31
9.3 Assigning entity tags to variants........................32
10 Content negotiation responses..............................32
10.1 List response...........................................33
10.2 Choice response.........................................34
10.3 Adhoc response..........................................37
10.4 Reusing the Alternates header...........................38
10.5 Extracting a normal response from a choice response.....39
10.6 Elaborate Vary headers..................................39
10.6.1 Construction of an elaborate Vary header..............40
10.6.2 Caching of an elaborate Vary header...................41
10.7 Adding an Expires header for HTTP/1.0 compatibility.....41
10.8 Negotiation on content encoding.........................41
Holtman & Mutz Experimental