Re: Content Sniffing impact on HTTPbis - #155

Revised proposal:

Replace this text in p3 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. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient  
> SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream".
with

"""
If the Content-Type field is not present in a message with a body, the  
recipient SHOULD assume that the message was sent with a Content-Type  
of "application/octet-stream".

Note that neither the interpretation of the data type of a message nor  
the behaviours caused by it are not defined by this specification;  
this potentially includes examination of the content to override the  
indicated type ("sniffing").
"""




On 03/06/2009, at 11:40 AM, Mark Baker wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>> Wors for me, although I don't know that the last sentence is really
>> necessary. Are you explicitly removing application/octet-stream as  
>> a default
>> if no other type is found or derived?
>>
>> Others?
>
> I don't know what that last sentence means, in particular
> "higher-level applications".
>
> Mark.
>


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