- From: =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:47:52 -0700
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> 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." Nominally agreed. The entire present paragraph from p3 section 3.2.1 reads.. Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. 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. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream". If the second sentence is simply deleted it will read.. Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream". ..which seems sub-optimal wrt the "remains unknown" phrase. We should probably alter the last sentence in the para such that the para reads e.g... Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If a Content-Type header field is not present, the recipient SHOULD treat the entity-body as type "application/octet-stream". Further subtle refinements worth considering are.. s/defining/declaring/ s/treat/regard/ ..yielding.. Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a Content-Type header field declaring the media type of that body. If a Content-Type header field is not present, the recipient SHOULD regard the entity-body as type "application/octet-stream". HTH, =JeffH
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