SSE; hixie: Require implementations to ignore all MIME type parameters on text/event-stream resources (whatwg r6848)

SSE; hixie: Require implementations to ignore all MIME type parameters
on text/event-stream resources (whatwg r6848)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/eventsource/Overview.html?r1=1.210&r2=1.211&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6847&to=6848

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/eventsource/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.210
retrieving revision 1.211
diff -u -d -r1.210 -r1.211
--- Overview.html 6 Dec 2011 23:50:24 -0000 1.210
+++ Overview.html 6 Dec 2011 23:53:02 -0000 1.211
@@ -573,9 +573,8 @@
   caching event sources.<hr><p>As data is received, the <span title="concept-task">tasks</span>
   queued by the <span>networking task source</span> to handle the data
   must act as follows.<p>HTTP 200 OK responses with a <span>Content-Type</span> header
-  specifying the type <code><a href="#text-event-stream">text/event-stream</a></code>, either with no
-  parameters or with a single parameter with the name "<code title="">charset</code>" whose value is an <span>ASCII
-  case-insensitive</span> match for the string "<code title="">utf-8</code>", must be processed line by line <a href="#event-stream-interpretation">as described below</a>.<p>When a successful response with a supported <span>MIME
+  specifying the type <code><a href="#text-event-stream">text/event-stream</a></code>, ignoring any
+  <span>MIME type</span> parameters, must be processed line by line <a href="#event-stream-interpretation">as described below</a>.<p>When a successful response with a supported <span>MIME
   type</span> is received, such that the user agent begins parsing the
   contents of the stream, the user agent must <a href="#announce-the-connection">announce the
   connection</a>.<p>The <span title="concept-task">task</span> that the
@@ -586,9 +585,7 @@
   <a href="#reestablish-the-connection">reestablish the connection</a>. This applies whether the
   connection is closed gracefully or unexpectedly. It doesn't apply
   for the error conditions listed below.<p>HTTP 200 OK responses that have a <span>Content-Type</span>
-  specifying an unsupported type (including the
-  <code><a href="#text-event-stream">text/event-stream</a></code> type with unsupported parameters or
-  parameters with unsupported values), or that have no
+  specifying an unsupported type, or that have no
   <span>Content-Type</span> at all, must cause the user agent to
   <a href="#fail-the-connection">fail the connection</a>.</p><p>HTTP 305 Use Proxy, HTTP 401 Unauthorized, and 407 Proxy
   Authentication Required should be treated transparently as for any

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