- From: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:05:45 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Ian Hickson wrote: > I don't mind making this requirement non-normative (since as you say it's > implicit), but I do think we should explicitly state that file extensions > don't and mustn't have an effect, since it is so common to use them for > this exact purpose in clients. I find it absurd to disallow use of file extensions given that on most OSes, there is no other mechanism to annotate content type. And they are a common way web servers choose content/type values. Legislating our result into irrelevance is the likely outcome of dictating against common practice without a better commonly available alternative. David Morris
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