- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:26:57 +1000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Looks good to me. Any other objections?
On 08/06/2009, at 12:01 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> OK. Please regenerate the diff with this change. It doesn't sound
>> like people feel we need to close off the possibility of sniffing
>> encoding, so I think the rest can stay the same...
>> ...
>
> OK, new proposed patch: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/155/155.2.diff
> >
>
> Full text of 3.2.1:
>
> --snip --
>
> 3.2.1. Type
>
> When an entity-body is included with a message, the data type of
> that
> body is determined via the header fields Content-Type and Content-
> Encoding. These define a two-layer, ordered encoding model:
>
> entity-body := Content-Encoding( Content-Type( data ) )
>
> Content-Type specifies the media type of the underlying data. 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. If the Content-Type header field is not
> present, it indicates that the sender does not know the media type
> of
> the data; recipients MAY either assume that it is "application/
> octet-stream" ([RFC2046], Section 4.5.1) or examine the content to
> determine its type.
>
> Content-Encoding may be used to indicate any additional content
> codings applied to the data, usually for the purpose of data
> compression, that are a property of the requested resource. There
> is
> no default encoding.
>
> Note that neither the interpretation of the data type of a message
> nor the behaviors caused by it are defined by HTTP; this potentially
> includes examination of the content to override any indicated type
> ("sniffing").
> -- snip --
>
> Best regards, Julian
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