Re: comments on draft-barth-mime-sniffing

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:44:58 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> One other interesting data point here is that upcoming versions of  
> Apache will no longer send a default MIME at all, if I understood the  
> comments in the relevant bug correctly.  That is, if there is no type  
> configured for the file via some mechanism the server knows about, it  
> will simply send no Content-Type header and let the consumer decide what  
> to do.

Per the current rules that would give the same result as a bogus media type though. I.e. lack of Content-Type does not give you the right to start sniffing for <video> / <audio>.


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Received on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 07:45:51 UTC