- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:52:53 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
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. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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