- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:41:24 -0400
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 7/19/10 11:33 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > Can somebody explain the rational for treating application/octet-stream > the same way as absent media type information? Well, for one thing this is a common web server misconfiguration (default configuration in IIS, last I checked). In Gecko's case there's a technical issue too: type sniffing for responses with absent media type information happens in the networking library before the <video> ever sees the data, so by the time it sees it the data has been sniffed as application/octet-stream (due to not being anything recognized, and not looking like text). This last can, of course, be worked around in various ways on our end. -Boris
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