- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:43:02 +0200
- To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- CC: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>, Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> Many more clients to content sniffing, and the HTML5 draft suggests it's >> the right thing to do... > > So this whole question can be rephrased thus: > > Are there significant numbers of servers out there which are > serving content intended to be rendered as HTML (or other) with > Content-Type: text/plain? I fear so, because of Apache httpd's support for defaulting the content type (and the default being text/plain). See <https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13986>. > ... > Also, it might it be invoked by servers which report *no* Content-Type? > ... Well, that's totally ok. Servers that do not know the Content-Type of a resource should not guess, which in turn allows the recipient to sniff. > ... BR, Julian
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