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Re: Content Sniffing impact on HTTPbis - #155

From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 01:34:23 -0700
Message-ID: <7789133a0906050134u1d771301x30207286518d733f@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org> 
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
> I think that conflicts with my analysis in the mime-respect TAG finding.
> I would prefer that no Content-Type means that the server doesn't know
> the media type, thereby allowing the recipient to guess.

It seems the point of this thread is to allow (but discourage) the
recipient to guess in all cases.  Perhaps you mean that we ought not
to discourage guessing when the Content-Type header is absent.

Adam
Received on Friday, 5 June 2009 08:35:14 GMT

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