- From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 00:48:38 -0500
Elliotte Harold wrote: > Mike Schinkel wrote: > > Sounds like we need content-types determined by inspection > > on web servers?(which would really slow-down serving pages, > > unless they could be cached, but with so much dynamic > > generated content that doesn't seem realistic...) > No, I don;t think so. There's nothing wrong with a server specifying > the content-type it likes for a document, though that decision > should be in the hands of the document author, not the server > administrator. That's a design flaw in a lot of web servers and > server installations today. I think you missed my point, which was that authors should be in control. I strongly believe in the need for web authors to control content types, and I'm even doing some research in the area at the moment. >> My point is that the client gets to decide how it will process the >> incoming document. The server can suggest but it can't demand. >> If the client wants to process the incoming document as XML, >> HTML, plain text, or JPEG, that's its choice. Different clients will >> have different needs and thus make different choices. Hmm. I believe the http standard states that clients are not suppose to override a content-type given by a server. For example, a web page showing a script virus shouldn't be identified by the client as a script and executed; the client should instead just display it as a web page like the server told it to. Or am I missing your context? -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/
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