Lack of sniffing of text/plain for non-binary content

• From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
• Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:32:44 +0100
• To: public-html@w3.org
• Message-Id: <B03B8105-FB92-45D0-B9FE-A20C989E89F8@googlemail.com>

Hi,

Currently we only sniff text/plain (in certain conditions, being  
there is no content-encoding headers and content-type is equal to one  
of "text/plain", "text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1", or "text/plain;  
charset=iso-8859-1") to see whether it is binary content or not.  
However, this poses issues for a large number of feeds that are  
served as text/plain: a notable example of this is <http:// 
youtube.com/rss/global/top_favorites.rss>.


- Geoffrey Sneddon

Received on Saturday, 8 September 2007 19:32:57 UTC