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  25.     <I>Wed Aug 12 02:43:51 PDT 2009</I>
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  41. <PRE>Jonas Sicking wrote:
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  42. &gt;<i> The only site where I can
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  43. </I>&gt;<i> remember seeing content negotiation actually used is on w3.org
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  45. fwiw, MXR (and even LXR) uses some content negotiation, and it
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  46. generally &quot;magically works&quot;. OTOH it's transparent, so you shouldn't
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  47. &quot;see&quot; it :).
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  49. But yes, I'd say that content negotiation is a failure. Another
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  50. failure in that area is Link: :).
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  52. The problem with content types i think stems more from:
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  53. 1. images generally having random file extensions because users didn't
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  59. Partially, both of these stem from the internet mantra: be strict in
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  60. what you send and graceful in what you receive.
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  61. However, only computers can be strict in what they send. So &quot;be
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  62. ignorant of what you send&quot; + &quot;be graceful in what you receive&quot; results
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  63. in &quot;no one can trust what is sent&quot;.
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