I have made a http request using Firefox.Now the request header shows the following:
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
But curious to know what is q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
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Each media-range MAY be followed by one or more accept-params, beginning with the “q” parameter for indicating a relative quality factor. The first “q” parameter (if any) separates the media-range parameter(s) from the accept-params. Quality factors allow the user or user agent to indicate the relative degree of preference for that media-range, using the qvalue scale from 0 to 1. The default value is q=1
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A nice explanation can be found here as well.