Re: Media types

On Tuesday 15 January 2002 01:23 pm, David Orchard wrote:
> I tend to agree with TimBL because the first child is the first
> thing a piece of software has to understand, therefore it is most
> useful to be able to route to the right piece of software.  Although
> this point tends to be somewhat moot because a lot of software will
> do the right thing with the document even if the content-type was
> wrong because the URL is the main routing component, not the
> content-type.

I think you have to ask "what is the software, and how did it get the 
document in the first place?"