OpenID client is failing due to content negotiation on Apache representing OpenID server

Question

This is a question about configuring Apache and accept headers.

I am trying to login to Superuser with OpenID, and it generates a request like this:

telnet phor.net 80
GET /professional HTTP/1.0
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xrds+xml`

And my Apache server gives the error:

406 Not Acceptable: 
An appropriate representation of the requested resource /professional 
could not be found on this server. Available variants: 
professional.php, type  application/x-httpd-php

If a normal web browser hits the site, content negotiation correctly selects professional.php as the resource for this request. Is it possible to serve this same file to superuser?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 13 '10 at 21:54

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Did you try adding application/x-httpd-php to the accept portion of your request?

answered Sep 13 '10 at 21:54

Kyle Buser

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Yes, that fixes the problem. But I cannot control the client's (Superuser.com) request, I can only control my server's response. – William Entriken Sep 13 '10 at 22:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '10 at 15:13

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Solution

AddType text/html php

In my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/*

answered Sep 14 '10 at 15:13

William Entriken

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OpenID client is failing due to content negotiation on Apache representing OpenID server

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