Re: NEW ISSUE: content sniffing

Ian Hickson wrote:
> ...
>> It's the thing that actually gets the resource.  It's free to do 
>> whatever it likes with that content.
> 
> No, HTTP says of the Content-Type header "its value indicates what 
> additional content codings have been applied to the entity-body, and thus 
> what decoding mechanisms must be applied in order to obtain the media-type 
> referenced by the Content-Type header field".

No it doesn't. It says this about Content-*Encoding* 
(<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.7.2.1.p.3>).

> ...

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 3 April 2009 05:52:11 UTC