Media-type containing semi-colon but no parameter

• From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
• Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:49:37 +0200
• To: "HTTP WG" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <op.vx3kozqb64w2qv@anne-van-kesterens-macbook-pro.local>

Currently per HTTP the following constitutes an incorrect Content-Type  
header:

   Content-Type: text/html;

as per media-type the semi-colon must be followed by a parameter. No  
implementation I know of treats that as an unknown media type however.  
They arrive at the somewhat obvious text/html media type. It would make  
sense to me if HTTP were changed to allow a trailing semi-colon.


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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

Received on Monday, 4 July 2011 13:50:17 UTC