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Re: Questions about draft-abarth-mime-sniff-00

From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 15:49:05 -0700
Message-ID: <7789133a0905301549y315a2d76qef0af0158448bcd2@mail.gmail.com>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: Lisa Dusseault <lisa.dusseault@messagingarchitects.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> IE does, although badly documented. It would be nice if other UAs did it
> better, instead of not doing it at all.

I've left explicit mention of a user interface for content sniffing
out of the next draft, but the draft does account for the possibility
that a user agent might be configured to strictly obey the
Content-Type header.  Hopefully this will nudge implementors to permit
users to configure them thusly.

Adam
Received on Saturday, 30 May 2009 22:50:02 UTC

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