Re: several messages about content sniffing in HTML

Julian Reschke wrote:
> Roy pointed out (I think) that Apache's defaults did not change; so it 
> must be some distributor/vendor causing this.

Yep.

> Where does it stop? Are you planning to add new special cases any time 
> some Linux distro screws things up in a new way?

If everyone does the sniffing in the spec and no other, then pages would get 
fixed and there wouldn't be a problem here.  The issue right now is that some 
UAs do more permissive sniffing than that (e.g. sniffing all text/plain 
responses, period).

-Boris

Received on Friday, 29 February 2008 17:07:49 UTC