My server is looking for text/xml or application/sru+xml.

Ralph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors
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> On Behalf Of Ross Singer
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:05 PM
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> Subject: Appropriate accept header for SRU 1.1/1.2?
> 
> Hi everybody -
> I recently noticed that viaf.org's SRU service recently changed and
> now requires conneg to return an XML response (which is probably a
> bug, but that's not really a problem in my mind).  If you have curl
> available to you, try:
> 
> curl -v
> "http://viaf.org/search?query=local.names+all+%22Rowson,%20Susanna%22&
> version=1.1&maximumRecords=100&operation=searchRetrieve&stylesheet=xsl
> /results.xsl&sortKeys=holdingscount"
> 
> Note the response is xhtml (and served as "text/html")
> 
> and
> 
> curl -v -H "Accept: text/xml"
> "http://viaf.org/search?query=local.names+all+%22Rowson,%20Susanna%22&
> version=1.1&maximumRecords=100&operation=searchRetrieve&stylesheet=xsl
> /results.xsl&sortKeys=holdingscount"
> 
> (application/xml also works)
> 
> This made me think that it would make sense for sruby to *always* send
> the appropriate Accept header (I guess it's sending */* now), but
> before I add that, what is the appropriate mime type for SRU over HTTP
> GET?  "text/xml"?  "application/xml"?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ross.