RFR: 8163921: HttpURLConnection default Accept header is malformed according to HTTP/1.1 RFC [v2]

[Daniel Jeliński]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:21:44 GMT, Michael McMahon <michaelm at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.base/share/classes/sun/net/www/protocol/http/HttpURLConnection.java line 293:
>> 
>>> 291:     static final String acceptString =
>>> 292:         "text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, */*; q=0.2";
>>> 293: 
>> 
>> It looks syntactically correct now, but I wonder about the actual semantics, and whether it makes any sense to be asking for 80% reduction in quality of other media types.
>
> Should we just have `static final String acceptString = "*/*";`

yeah, that's a sensible default. `curl` is using that today. I'll adjust.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7181