Jukka Zitting created TIKA-942:
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Summary: HTTP Accept header evaluator
Key: TIKA-942
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-942
Project: Tika
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: mime
Reporter: Jukka Zitting
The HTTP Accept header (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html)
provides a flexible mechanism for an HTTP client to express its preferences for
different response media types. Unfortunately processing Accept headers on the
server side is quite complicated because of the somewhat complicated syntax and
the possibility of media type inheritance relationships (can I respond with
application/xml if the client requests text/plain?).
The media type registry in Tika is perfect for resolving such cases, so I'd
like to introduce a new {{String resolveHttpAccept(String accept, String...
types)}} method in the Tika facade. The method would take the value of an HTTP
accept header and evaluate it against the given media types supported by a
server, using the configured media type registry for type inheritance
information. The method would then return the best match from among the given
media types, or {{application/octet-stream}} if none of the listed types would
be accepted by the client.
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