- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:09:22 -0400
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, 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>
At 15:43 +0200 3/07/08, Julian Reschke wrote: >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. but, as far as I can tell, there is no "unknown" content-type, is there? -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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