- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:54:42 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 19.07.2010 17:41, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 7/19/10 11:33 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: >> Can somebody explain the rational for treating application/octet-stream >> the same way as absent media type information? > > Well, for one thing this is a common web server misconfiguration > (default configuration in IIS, last I checked). Chicken and egg. I can see this for legacy types, but we are defining a new feature here. If no UA plays application/octet-stream, then the risk of people serving video without proper type is zero. > ... Best regards, Julian
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