Re: Content Sniffing impact on HTTPbis - #155

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:43 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr.
<wrowe@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> The first part 'should' read 'MUST', as Julian mentions below, the choice
> is in interpretation, not the value of the Content-Type header;

This isn't workable.  The content sniffing algorithm needs to
distinguish between an absent Content-Type header and a Content-Type
header with the value "application/octet-stream".  Making this a MUST
requirement forces the algorithm to treat them the same.

Adam