Error Message: Error 406, No Acceptable Objects Were Found

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SYMPTOMS

When you use the Accept-Language header and the file name specified does not include the file extension, the following error message occurs:

Error 406, No acceptable objects were found.

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Because no other "Accept:" headers are specified, the Web server determines that the client can only handle text/plain and text/html content types. Because the document has no extension, the type is octet/stream, which causes the error message to be returned. This is by design.

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RESOLUTION

Include the file extension in the request, so that the content type can be determined.

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MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

The following portion of code causes the Error 406:

hHandle = HttpOpenRequest(hInetConnect, "GET", "/document");
HttpAddRequestHeaders(hHandle "Accept-Language:en-us\r\n");
HttpSendRequest (hHandle);
InternetReadFile (hHandle, lpBuffer);

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APPLIES TO

Microsoft Active Server Pages 4.0
Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0

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kberrmsg kbpending kbprb KB251215

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