--- a/ldp.html Wed Sep 10 11:05:23 2014 -0400
+++ b/ldp.html Wed Sep 10 13:01:49 2014 -0400
@@ -900,21 +900,23 @@
respond with a Turtle
representation of the requested <a title="Linked Data Platform RDF Source">LDP-RS</a> when
the request includes an <code>Accept</code> header specifying <code>text/turtle</code>,
- unless content negotiation <em>requires</em> a different outcome
+ unless HTTP content negotiation <em>requires</em> a different outcome
[[!turtle]].
</h2>
<blockquote>
<em>Non-normative note: </em>
- In other words, Turtle must be returned in the usual case clients would expect (client requests it and server
- supports it) <em>as well as</em> cases where the client requests something, content negotiation results in a tie,
+ In other words, Turtle must be returned by <a title="LDP server">LDP servers</a>
+ in the usual case clients would expect (client requests it)
+ as well as cases where the client requests Turtle or other media type(s), content negotiation results in a tie,
and Turtle is one of the tying media types.
- For example, if the <code>Accept</code> header lists <code>text/turtle</code> as a media type with the
+ For example, if the <code>Accept</code> header lists <code>text/turtle</code> as one of several media types with the
highest relative quality
- factor (<code>q=</code> value), <a title="LDP server">LDP servers</a> must respond with <code>text/turtle</code>
- even if multiple media types have the same (highest) relative quality factor.
+ factor (<code>q=</code> value), <a title="LDP server">LDP servers</a> must respond with Turtle.
+ HTTP servers in general are not required to resolve ties in this way, or to support Turtle at all, but
+ <a title="LDP server">LDP servers</a> are.
On the other hand, if Turtle is one of several requested media types,
but another media type the server supports has a higher relative quality factor,
- normal content negotiation rules apply and the server would not respond with Turtle.
+ standard HTTP content negotiation rules apply and the server (LDP or not) would not respond with Turtle.
</blockquote>
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