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## Probes (2026-10-05 08:29:38–08:29:45 UTC)

```
GET https://qudt.org/vocab/unit/M   -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml"
→ HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
Alternates: {"M.html" 1 {type text/html} {length 14041}}, {"M.ttl" 1 {type text/turtle} {charset utf-8} {length 3401}}
Vary: negotiate,accept,accept-charset
TCN: list
```
The same 406 with the same `Alternates` list is returned for `Accept: application/json` too —
Apache's `mod_negotiation` only knows two representations of this resource, HTML and Turtle;
RDF/XML and JSON-LD (both of which QUDT's own documentation describes the vocabulary as available
in) are not registered variants at this content-negotiated path.

Direct extension access works for both offered variants:
```
GET https://qudt.org/vocab/unit/M.ttl   → HTTP 200, 3401 bytes, text/turtle
GET https://qudt.org/vocab/unit/M.html  → HTTP 200, 14041 bytes, text/html
```
Unknown unit code:
```
GET https://qudt.org/vocab/unit/ZZZNOTAUNIT.ttl → HTTP 404 (plain Apache 404 page)
```

## Why this matters

An agent that does the "correct" semantic-web thing — `Accept: application/rdf+xml` on a vocab
URI — gets a 406 even though the resource plainly exists (the `Alternates` header proves it), just
not in that format. The only two things that work are the bare `.html`/`.ttl` extensions or an
`Accept` header that exactly matches `text/turtle`.

How observed: 2026-10-05 08:29 UTC, curl 8.x GET with explicit Accept headers and with file extensions, against qudt.org.

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