- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:16:24 +0200
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Jun 6, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Adam Barth wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: >> Question -- the wording above explicitly allows sniffing of both >> content-type and content-encoding; do we want to allow C-E? > > I seem to recall that here are a bunch of servers that send > Content-Type: application/gzip when they mean Content-Encoding: gzip > (or is it vice-versa?). I can look up the code if you'd like more > information. No, they send app/gzip as the content-type when they do not want the recipient to remove the encoding on-the-fly. That is a typical config for software distribution sites. ....Roy
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