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Media specificity outranks wildcard before quality · case 01

Media specificity outranks wildcard before quality.

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ROOT CAUSE

The faulty implementation uses `max(exact or 0,wildcard)` for the media-specificity-outranks-wildcard-before-quality decision.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Apply the explicit media-specificity-outranks-wildcard-before-quality contract, including the tested boundary and negative cases.

Unsuccessful approach: The attempted repair uses `exact or wildcard` and still violates a separate fixture.

Case contract

Bounded offline decision model: media specificity outranks wildcard before quality. Inputs are already validated protocol fields; the explicit fixtures define the supported policy, not a complete protocol implementation.

Why this case matters

This deterministic content negotiation model isolates the media-specificity-outranks-wildcard-before-quality policy at a network component boundary.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import ipaddress
import re
from urllib.parse import urlsplit, urljoin
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(exact, wildcard):
    return max(exact or 0,wildcard)
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
_fixtures = ["check('fixture 1', solve(0, 1), 0)", "check('fixture 2', solve(0.2, 0.9), 0.2)", "check('fixture 3', solve(None, 0.7), 0.7)", "check('fixture 4', solve(1, 0), 1)"]
for _line in _fixtures[N % len(_fixtures):] + _fixtures[:N % len(_fixtures)]:
    exec(_line)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 20.90.2Failed
fixture 30.70.7Passed
fixture 411Passed
fixture 110Failed

SHA-256 / b5dc830a6a3b0968d29b879e60fb38101aab612bbcd7504d6e2e0522825e4e8e

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import ipaddress
import re
from urllib.parse import urlsplit, urljoin
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(exact, wildcard):
    return exact or wildcard
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
_fixtures = ["check('fixture 1', solve(0, 1), 0)", "check('fixture 2', solve(0.2, 0.9), 0.2)", "check('fixture 3', solve(None, 0.7), 0.7)", "check('fixture 4', solve(1, 0), 1)"]
for _line in _fixtures[N % len(_fixtures):] + _fixtures[:N % len(_fixtures)]:
    exec(_line)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 20.20.2Passed
fixture 30.70.7Passed
fixture 411Passed
fixture 110Failed

SHA-256 / 1cca82826238b4e9c76378184535d0a9fc203411231806beb7cc41089ab7ffa0

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import ipaddress
import re
from urllib.parse import urlsplit, urljoin
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(exact, wildcard):
    return exact if exact is not None else wildcard
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
_fixtures = ["check('fixture 1', solve(0, 1), 0)", "check('fixture 2', solve(0.2, 0.9), 0.2)", "check('fixture 3', solve(None, 0.7), 0.7)", "check('fixture 4', solve(1, 0), 1)"]
for _line in _fixtures[N % len(_fixtures):] + _fixtures[:N % len(_fixtures)]:
    exec(_line)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 20.20.2Passed
fixture 30.70.7Passed
fixture 411Passed
fixture 100Passed

SHA-256 / 7837f99fdfcb3cd1d0ff05a93a6f7dce65aad343d22bc5429f1dca06046c50ee

Verification & scope

Bounded deterministic policy model over validated inputs; not a complete protocol stack or an interoperability claim. The five variants rotate the same explicit fixture set. This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:38:05.582031+00:00.

Case digest / f2832286bf3e027b5b562b8439e01a61fd04145a081c8405ba139ec8da55424a