- From: William A. Rowe, Jr. <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:10:27 -0500
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Julian Reschke wrote: > > If we make the absence of Content-Type equivalent to sending > Content-Type: application/octet-stream, *and* recipients treat > application/octet-stream is recommended by > <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2046.html#rfc.section.4.5.1>, then > sending no Content-Type becomes less plausible. The question is, what is the default metacontent transmitted when there is no other information? As the majority of content is unpadded, organized into eight bit octets with zero padding, etc, this is not a bad assumption. Although I suspect that a new value of application/unknown-stream would be appropriate. Server misrepresentation of Content-Type will cease, once browsers stop misrepresenting the content type. Until web authors and administrators (including mass vhosters) become aware that they have misrepresented the data they are serving, they will continue to generate the 3% (IIRC) of mislabeled content.
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