Re: several messages about content sniffing in HTML from Boris Zbarsky on 2008-02-29 (public-html@w3.org from February 2008)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:02:18 -0600
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <47C83A9A.5010905@mit.edu>

> Actually the spec right now requires that there be no content sniffing 
> if the Content-Encoding header is set... are you running into cases 
> where that is a problem?

There are some bugs in Bugzilla, yes.  I don't have the bug numbers off the top 
of my head.

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> Oh, one more note.  Gecko's sniffing behavior actually had to be 
>> changed recently.  Unfortunately, the more recent Apache installs 
>> changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 as the default encoding
 >
> Uppercase only?

Yes.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 29 February 2008 17:02:56 UTC