- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:55:57 +0200
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Julian Reschke wrote: >| MIME-Handling: Sniffing Opt-Out "Opt-out" and "embrace" should be put under Godwin's Law. For their text/plain example, why can't they add an "try to render as HTML" OPTIoN ? OE6 can manage this issue as I want it, admittedly I wasn't aware that IE6 doesn't. And IE8 can do whatever makes sense wrt security. > Let's ignore the issue of inventing a new media type > parameter for all new media types for a moment... <moment for="a" /> No ;-) As your subject says, this "I mean it" parameter has the decent charme of RFC 3514: | The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header (Evil Bit). | S. Bellovin. 1 April 2003. > But is this really the right approach? Assuming that HTTP servers know what they are talking about is arguably no OPTIoN... :-( Frank
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