- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:51:52 -0400
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Mark Baker <mark@coactus.com> wrote: >> Obviously that kind of sniffing is widespread amoungst one class of >> agent, and I'm all for documenting how it works, but IMO that has no >> place in the protocol specification, save perhaps for an informative >> note that it happens and a pointer to the algorithm. > > When different user agents use different sniffing algorithms, content > authors pay a large cost, both in terms of compatibility and in terms > of security. For user agents that wish to perform sniffing, I think > we'd be doing the Web a service by specifying which algorithm they > should use. I agree, which is why I suggested a link from 2616bis to the algorithm. Do you feel that to be insufficient? If so, why? Mark.
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