Re: Why Microsoft's authoritative=true won't work and is a bad idea

At 18:27  +0200 7/07/08, Julian Reschke wrote:
>Dave Singer wrote:
>>
>>At 17:46  +0200 7/07/08, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>>>An alternative might be to add a header "look, I guessed it" when 
>>>>Apache adds a 'guessed' text/plain as the content-type, and say 
>>>>that browsers might take text/plain+IGuessed as something to 
>>>>sniff. This is like the proposed Microsoft header but the other 
>>>>way up...
>>>
>>>I agree that's nicer in theory. But how do we get all the existing 
>>>installations to change their DefaultType?
>>
>>Well, someone has already said that the IE upgrade rate is less 
>>than 50%.  There are a lot more clients (browsers) than servers out 
>>there, and system admins tend to be better at upgrading than users 
>>(because they get security fixes along with bug fixes).  So fixing 
>>the server end of the equation with an extra "look, I guessed, I 
>>might be wrong" might get us closer to a better position faster 
>>than fixing the browser end.
>
>But if we can get server admins to change their default to 
>"text/plain; butIguessed", we probably can also get them not to send 
>a default, right? (*)

But adding a new piece of information (probably) breaks no-one, 
whereas leaving out content-type seems much more dangerous...


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David Singer
Apple/QuickTime