- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 21:21:51 +0200
- To: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
Ian, this is a very good read. I have a related question: Let's assume that an HTTP user agent uses PUT to send an entitity body to an HTTP server, but neglects to provide a content-type header. What's the recommend server behaviour for subsequent GET requests to that resource? 1) do not send a content type header (server refuses to guess), 2a) guess content type based on "extension" (hmph...) or 2b) guess content type based on content (for instance after successfully parsing as HTML) 3) ...? Note that 2a) is what currently Apache/moddav does, and this really seems to be a very bad idea. Regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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