Apache Administrator's Handbook

Chapter 10. Content Negotiation

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Client Preference

• Negotiation Methods

• Noncompliant Browsers

• Caching

	“In a defeat there would be a roundabout vindication of himself. He thought it would prove, in a manner, that he had fled earlier because of his superior powers of perception. A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.”
	--The Red Badge of Courage—Stephen Crane

Content negotiation is another phase of URL mapping (see Chapter 9, “URL Mapping”), but sufficiently important to warrant its own chapter. When the client requests a document from the server, if there is any ambiguity as to what document to give to the client, there is negotiation between ...