Mark Nottingham wrote: > ... >> How about: >> >> "Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a >> Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body, unless >> that information is unknown." > > I read that as effectively equivalent to the current text, but sure; it > is more explicit about when the SHOULD can be violated. > ... I'm pretty sensitive to this kind of SHOULD requirements, because of all the crap I've seen servers putting into WebDAV metadata, because the implementors thought they had to (like providing content language info defaulting to the server's locale, or time stamps defaulting to Jan 01, 1970). BR, JulianReceived on Saturday, 6 June 2009 10:24:19 UTC
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