- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:15:43 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > 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. That's certainly false. Whatever the probability is, it's certainly non-zero. Another factor is people might give up on using the feature because they can't get it to work. Adam
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