- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:32:02 +0200
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
I am wondering whether we can't actually get closer to the current specification. Does anyone know the answer to the following? * if a document is delivered without a content-type header, do the browsers effectively sniff the document type? * can Apache be fixed not to give a content-type header if, in fact, it doesn't know it? If the answer is yes to both, we may be able to ameliorate the position by getting closer to having the presence of content-type give the "I mean it" indication... An alternative might be to add a header "look, I guessed it" when Apache adds a 'guessed' text/plain as the content-type, and say that browsers might take text/plain+IGuessed as something to sniff. This is like the proposed Microsoft header but the other way up... -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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