Accept
Summary
Used by user agents to specify response media types that are acceptable.
Overview table
- Direction
- Request
Features
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Syntax
Accept = #( media-range [ accept-params ] )
media-range = ( "*/*"
/ ( type "/" "*" )
/ ( type "/" subtype )
) *( OWS ";" OWS parameter )
accept-params = weight *( accept-ext )
accept-ext = OWS ";" OWS token [ "=" ( token / quoted-string ) ]
Examples
Prefer HTML or text/x-c, or text/x-dvi if it’s the best the server has after a 20% markdown in quality, or plain text after a 50% markdown in quality:
Accept: text/plain; q=0.5, text/html, text/x-dvi; q=0.8, text/x-c
Prefer XHTML or HTML, or generic XML with a reduced preference, or else any content:
Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml;q=0.9, */*;q=0.8