- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:37:24 -0400
On 9/1/10 10:23 AM, Philip J?genstedt wrote: > Huh, I guessed incorrectly, neither serving a PNG as text/plain or > text/html makes it be sniffed and rendered in a top-level browsing > context in Opera. However, both work in IE8. > > Why do you say that it can't possibly work? That was a statement about the current implementation state of opera, not about future possibilities. > Are there any security risks > with the browser potentially interpreting a plain text or HTML document Yes, actually, if there's a filtering proxy trying to screen out video or image data that's trying to exploit known OS-level bugs, say. But I had assumed, based on the rest of this discussion, that people simply didn't care about that. -Boris
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