Re: Investigate expected results to http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/http/content-type/sniffing/ tests in collaboration with the IETF HTTP WG (ACTION-44)

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:18:51 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
> Smylers wrote:
>> That mail points out that none of the characters are > 127, which is
>> correct.  However, test 16 does contain several characters < 32 (and
>> which aren't tabs or line-breaks); these are not normally considered to
>> be plain text.
>
> By whom? Is there any spec that disallows them in text types?

There's a spec that suggests they don't have defined meaning:

   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046

(Ironically their server is misconfigured to serve that as text/html so  
you'd have to view source...)


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Received on Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:32:26 UTC