- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:17:18 +0200
- To: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- CC: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>, Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Dave Singer wrote: >>> ... >>> Also, it might it be invoked by servers which report *no* Content-Type? >>> ... >> >> Well, that's totally ok. Servers that do not know the Content-Type of >> a resource should not guess, which in turn allows the recipient to sniff. > > but, as far as I can tell, there is no "unknown" content-type, is there? The way to signal "unknown" is not to send a Content-Type header at all. As far as I understand, this is what happens with httpd trunk when you set the DefaultType to "none". BR, Julian
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