- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:33:14 +0200
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Hi, <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/video.html#mime-types>: > The MIME type "application/octet-stream" with no parameters is never a type that the user agent knows it cannot render. User agents must treat that type as equivalent to the lack of any explicit Content-Type metadata when it is used to label a potential media resource. Can somebody explain the rational for treating application/octet-stream the same way as absent media type information? Note, <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2046.html#rfc.section.4.5.1>: > The recommended action for an implementation that receives an "application/octet-stream" entity is to simply offer to put the data in a file, with any Content-Transfer-Encoding undone, or perhaps to use it as input to a user-specified process. Best regards, Julian
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