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Content negotiation

In computing, content negotiation refers to mechanisms defined as a part of HTTP that make it possible to serve different versions of a document (or more generally, representations of a resource) at the same URI, so that user agents can specify which version fits their capabilities the best. One classical use of this mechanism is to serve an image in GIF…

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Content negotiation

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Triples37
Avg. degree1.87
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Content negotiation

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related to External links · 15
Content negotiation → Algorithm, Content, Content NegotiationOpen, Discussion, HTTP Remote Variant Selection, HTTP/1, HTTPRFC, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, PHP, RFC, RVSA/1, Section, Semantics, Transparent Content Negotiation, XHTML
related to Agent-driven · 9
Content negotiation → Agent-driven, More, Multiple Choices, Not Acceptable, The, This, To, Unfortunately HTTP, URL
related to Server-driven · 6
Content negotiation → HTTP, More, Server-driven, The, This, To
related to Mechanisms · 1
Content negotiation → HTTP

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content representations user negotiation resource http possible gif server media different version server-driven mechanisms language user-agent browser example based selection

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Content Negotiation by Profile specify how to resolve trade-offs in cases where different headers specify conflicting requirementsinstance ofsuch as Memento which describes use of aAccept-Datetimeheader to retrieve version of a resource's representation at particular points in time and the IETF/W3C's Content Negotiat…0.80text
such asinstance ofsuch as Memento which describes use of aAccept-Datetimeheader to retrieve version of a resource's representation at particular points in time and the IETF/W3C's Content Negotiat…0.80text
in the above exampleinstance ofsuch as Memento which describes use of aAccept-Datetimeheader to retrieve version of a resource's representation at particular points in time and the IETF/W3C's Content Negotiat…0.80text
choosing between an HTML page in Englishinstance ofsuch as Memento which describes use of aAccept-Datetimeheader to retrieve version of a resource's representation at particular points in time and the IETF/W3C's Content Negotiat…0.80text
a GIF image in German.Agent-driven.mw-parser-output .hatnoteinstance ofsuch as Memento which describes use of aAccept-Datetimeheader to retrieve version of a resource's representation at particular points in time and the IETF/W3C's Content Negotiat…0.80text
a GIF image in Germaninstance ofsuch as Memento which describes use of aAccept-Datetimeheader to retrieve version of a resource's representation at particular points in time and the IETF/W3C's Content Negotiat…0.80text
Content negotiationrelated to Agent-drivenAgent-driven0.60section
Content negotiationrelated to Agent-drivenThis0.60section
Content negotiationrelated to Agent-drivenTo0.60section
Content negotiationrelated to Agent-drivenThe0.60section
Content negotiationrelated to Agent-drivenURL0.60section
Content negotiationrelated to Agent-drivenMore0.60section

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