Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > 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. It would be interesting to - *know* when this happens, and - see how clients would behave if they would ignore the Content-Type header altogether (treating the message as if no content type was specified). Best regards, julianReceived on Tuesday, 20 November 2007 11:11:32 UTC
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