Re: security impact of dropping charset default

Resolved as per:
   http://www3.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/20#comment:4


On 05/02/2008, at 7:03 AM, Henrik Nordström wrote:

>
> tor 2008-01-24 klockan 11:30 -0500 skrev Yves Lafon:
>
>> It would be a nice addition to describe the issue in general, not  
>> only for
>> HTML content, when UA are into the "content sniffing" business. It  
>> fits
>> well in the security section of HTTP.
>>
>> The specific case of HTML needs also to be explained, but has its  
>> place in
>> a document reserved for browser implementors. I am pretty sure  
>> there is
>> already one that can be extended that way.
>
> Adding a note in security considerations mentioning why servers  
> explicit
> intentions on content-type and/or charset or encoding MUST NOT be
> secondguessed by sniffing sounds like a good idea to me.
>
> Regards
> Henrik


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