Interpreting Accept Headers as intended in IE and Webkit
- by Jrgns
I developed a web app that responds with data in the format as specified by the client in the HTTP Accept Headers. Everything worked fine while using Firefox, but when I wanted to check my CSS / HTML on Chrome and IE, both of them wanted to download the index page, as if it's an unknown content type.
After some research I found this article, which states that IE sends out a lot of crud in it's HTTP Accept headers, amongst others a list of image/* content types right at the start.
This caused my web app to try to send the index page as an image/jpeg.
So how do I know when to ignore and when to use the Accept Headers?