What does 'Accept: */*' mean under Client section of Request Headers?

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pencilCake picture pencilCake · Feb 8, 2013 · Viewed 16.3k times · Source

I was comparing headers of same HTTP Post request for Firefox and Internet Explorer and I see that for IE.

I was wondering:

What does Accept: */* mean under Client section of Request Headers?

Answer

MildlySerious picture MildlySerious · Feb 8, 2013

The accept: header defines the content type the client accepts, or expects to be returned by the server. Depending on the situation this can be text/css, text/html, image/png, .. etc. - just some mime type.

The * character is considered the wildcard. accept: */* simply means that any data of whatever mimetype is accepted and the server may choose what to return to the requesting client.

Also, please escape the * characters in your question to \*

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