Re: comments on draft-barth-mime-sniffing

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> Note that Gecko, at least, sniffs all HTTP responses without a 
> Content-Type header, and after that treats them all effectively as 
> metadata-provided.  It sounds like doing that is fundamentally 
> incompatible with this specification, though, unless we teach our 
> sniffer to recognize video/audio types by data, not just by extension...

Generally I would encourage you to sniff based on data and not extension 
for anything sent over HTTP anyway.

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