Re: review of content type rules by IETF/HTTP community

On Aug 27, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

>
> Robert Burns wrote:
>> That's great news. The other concern that may still make it  
>> worthwhile to pursue a 'unknown' IANA registered MIME type is that  
>> IIS appears to have the same bug (at least form the comments) on  
>> the related bug[1].
>
> Except IIS sends application/octet-stream, which is not sniffed by  
> UAs (except when embedded via <object>/<embed>, which is another  
> fun kettle of fish).  So at least the user gets to download the  
> file (which is often enough what they want anyway) instead of  
> having gibberish render.  But yes, it would be nice to change IIS  
> too.  ;)
>
> That said, could you point to the comment you're looking at here?   
> Your link was just to the bug itself....

<http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14095#c9>

Received on Monday, 27 August 2007 14:03:17 UTC