[Bug 12390] A sandboxed MIME type attribute would be better than a fully qualified MIME type

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12390

Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> 2011-05-09 18:45:58 UTC ---
The reason to use the MIME type is to get fail-closed behavior in legacy user
agents.  My understanding is that having a MIME parameter defeats that goal. 
If we want fail-open, then we can use something like Content-Security-Policy to
deliver a sandbox directive.

Note: Using the MIME type does not fail-closed in 100% of situations.  There
are a couple ways you can trick IE6 into failing open, even with a sandboxed
MIME type, due to the lax content sniffing behavior in IE6.  As IE6 become less
relevant, however, this issue probably matters less.

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Received on Monday, 9 May 2011 18:46:01 UTC