Re: NEW ISSUE: content sniffing

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Mark Baker <mark@coactus.com> wrote:
> Right.  The information you're talking about is irrelevant to most
> non-browser HTTP agents and so doesn't belong in the HTTP
> specification.

It's relevant to any HTTP user agent that wishes to interoperate with
existing Web content.  For example, Imageshop (described earlier in
this thread) is not a browser but is interested in knowing when its
users expect an HTTP response to be treated as an image.

Adam

Received on Wednesday, 1 April 2009 23:48:55 UTC