http://wellformedweb.org/news/8 <p>Here is a client-side example Python script that exploits the content negotiation in RESTLog.</p> <div class="example"><pre><code> import urllib # Simple test on WellFormedWeb.org to test the content # negotiation. This file contains two tests. In each # test a GET request is made against the URL # http://WellFormedWeb.org, the only # difference being in the ACCEPT header that is sent. # In the first test the RSS file is returned, # while in the second test the HTML file is # returned. op = urllib.FancyURLopener() op.addheader('Accept', 'application/rss+xml') f = op.open('http://wellformedweb.org/RESTLog.cgi') s = f.read() if (-1 != s.find("&lt;description>")): print "Success, we received an RSS file." op = urllib.FancyURLopener() op.addheader('Accept', 'text/html') f = op.open('http://wellformedweb.org/RESTLog.cgi') s = f.read() if (-1 != s.find("&lt;head>")): print "Success, we received an HTML file." </code></pre></div> BitWorking, Inc