- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:29:14 +0200
- To: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>, "Adam Barth" <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:22:05 +0200, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> As you point out, this is just a note, and doesn't affect conformance;
> it is still completely conformant to sniff the type of a message
> (because what you *do* with the data type is still up to the
> application).
Can we add a note to that effect then?
Proposal:
Note that the behavior caused by the data type
is not defined by HTTP; this potentially
includes examination of the content to override
any indicated type ("sniffing").
Cheers,
--
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
Received on Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:30:03 UTC