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Re: PROPOSAL: content sniffing [#155]

From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:21:39 -0700
Message-ID: <7789133a0904072321h3773bd70ke18b25959681623f@mail.gmail.com>
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Cc: Mark Baker <mark@coactus.com>, "=JeffH" <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> It seems like Mark's proposal is the minimum required to declare victory,
> from an HTTP standpoint at least.
>
> Remove this text from p3 section 3.2.1:
>>
>> "If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the
>> recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content
>> and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource."

I'm not an expert at spec reading, but the spec would still say:

"When an entity-body is included with a message, the data type of that
body is determined via the header fields Content-Type and
Content-Encoding."

This seems false since the data type might be determined after taking
other information into account.

Adam
Received on Wednesday, 8 April 2009 06:22:32 UTC

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