- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:58:41 +0100
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:16:40 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> Multiple media-type values? What would that be good for? > > Rendering the web? In particular, it's not uncommon for servers (esp. > when CGIs are involved) to produce things like: > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Type: text/plain > > which then get normalized to: > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1, text/plain > > Not sure where that normalization happens offhand (server end or Gecko > end). I once did some basic testing on this[1] and when you're sending the non-normalized version from the server Internet Explorer will pick the first Content-Type header and Firefox and Opera the second. For the Location header Internet Explorer and Opera pick the first and Firefox the second. [1]<http://annevankesteren.nl/2007/10/http-interoperability> -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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