- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:39:00 -0700
On Sep 8, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 07.09.2010 22:00, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> ... >>> * If a file in a top-level browsing context is sniffed as video but >>> then some kind of error is returned before the video plays the first >>> frame, fall back to allowing the user to download it, or whatever the >>> usual action would be if no sniffing had occurred. >> >> This might be pretty difficult to implement, since the video decoder >> might consume arbitrary amounts of data before saying that there was an >> error. >> ... > > It's not that hard if it's acceptable to restart the network request (just do it again, with a flag not-to-sniff). But there are cases where it's not acceptable, e.g. if it was a non-idempotent method. Of course, handling those specially makes an edge case feature even more complicated. Regards, Maciej
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