Re: [imps] content type sniffing - stream length from Ian Hickson on 2008-07-12 (public-html@w3.org from July 2008)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:50:13 +0000 (UTC)
To: Ryan King <ryan@theryanking.com>
Cc: public-html@w3.org, implementors@whatwg.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0807120250070.28237@hixie.dreamhostps.com>

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Ryan King wrote:
>
> "2.7.4 Content-Type sniffing: unknown type" says:
> 
>   2. If pattern length is smaller than stream length then skip this row.
> 
> ..which doesn't seem to make sense, since the streams will likely be 512 
> bytes long, and the patterns are a handful of bytes each. I suspect that 
> the intent was the opposite:
> 
>   2. If stream length is smaller than pattern length then skip this row.

Fixed.

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