[Pki-devel] [PATCH] 411 Added CLI parameter to select message format.

[Endi Sukma Dewata]

On 3/4/2014 9:19 AM, Ade Lee wrote:
> For the most part, this looks good.
>
> I have only one question - what happens when a client passes in either
> no Accepts or no Content-Type header - or is this even possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Ade

The Apache HTTP client for Java and python-requests libraries would 
generate those headers by default. Other clients such as curl and 
Firefox always generate those headers. I think this covers all clients 
that we want to support including IPA.

I suppose someone could create a raw socket and send HTTP requests 
without those headers, but I don't think we want to support that. If the 
client doesn't tell the server what it's sending or how it wants the 
response back, the server is not required or may not be able to respond 
properly.

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Endi S. Dewata