- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:43:50 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Gavin Carothers <gavin@carothers.name>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> Interesting case. I'm not sure if changing the sniffing algorithm >> would cause more harm than good in this case. > > An argument *could* be made that the scope of sniffing should be different > for cases where the server does not supply a media type itself. That is, in fact, how the sniffing algorithm works: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-abarth-mime-sniff The algorithm tolerates leading white space, but not leading BOMs. Adam
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