Updated Library conneg (markdown)

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The user agent (a web browser, for example. or the curl program), can request different representations by using headers. For example, `Accept: application/json; q=0.2, application/xml` says the client would be very happy to get back an XML representation (if you omit the q for quality parameter, it defaults to 1, which is best), but (s)he will tolerate JSON. Clearly, we are going to be able to satisfy that client, as we serve JSON by default. But what if the client had requested `Accept: application/xml;q=0.8, text/html`? In this example, we are going to serve both JSON and XML representations upon request. A client who requests `Accept: text/html, text/plain` is going to be disappointed. For the other aspects (language, charset and encoding), we are not going to offer any choices. That does not mean we ignore the client's headers for these aspects. We are going to check if our representation is acceptable to the client, and if not, return a 406 Not Acceptable response (an alternative is to send our representation anyway, and let the user decide whether or not to use it).
Next, we need to declare all the representations we support:
` mime_types_supported: LINKED_LIST [STRING] is
-- Media types `Current' supports
once
create Result.make
Result.put_front ({HTTP_MIME_TYPES}.application_xml)
Result.put_front ({HTTP_MIME_TYPES}.application_json)
ensure
mime_types_supported_not_void: Result /= Void
no_void_entry: not Result.has (Void)
end
charsets_supported: LINKED_LIST [STRING] is
-- Character sets `Current' supports
once
create Result.make
Result.put_front ("UTF-8")
ensure
charsets_supported_not_void: Result /= Void
no_void_entry: not Result.has (Void)
end
encodings_supported: LINKED_LIST [STRING] is
-- Encodings `Current' supports
once
create Result.make
Result.put_front ("identity")
Result.put_front ("") -- identity encoding
ensure
encoding_supported_not_void: Result /= Void
no_void_entry: not Result.has (Void)
end
languages_supported: LINKED_LIST [STRING] is
-- Languages `Current' supports
once
create Result.make
Result.put_front ("en")
ensure
languages_supported_not_void: Result /= Void
no_void_entry: not Result.has (Void)
end
Now we are in a position to do some negotiating. At the beginning of your handler(s), code: