On 5/28/09 9:41 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:
> The actual observed behavior of user agents designed to (primarily)
> process content of a certain media type (either in general, or in the
> specific context) is to make every effort to parse the content
> according to those rules, and only if such rules fail to produce
> meaningful results will they investigate alternatives.
As I've written already, isn't that OK, and unrelated to the sniffing
algorithm?
The purpose of the Content-Type field is to describe the data
contained in the body fully enough that the receiving user agent can
pick an appropriate agent or mechanism to present the data to the
user, or otherwise deal with the data in an appropriate manner.
- Rob
Received on Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:49:50 UTC