- From: Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 13:26:03 -0400
- To: Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com> wrote: > My algorithm skips only SPACE and TAB instead of all whitespace characters > because it assumes that the field value was already extracted from > Content-Type according to the HTTP/HTTPbis spec (0x0C, form feed, is never > considered whitespace in HTTP headers). In particular, it assumes that > folding whitespace (obs-fold) was replaced with spaces (or the message with > obs-fold rejected) before the Content-Type value was interpreted. Thanks for your detailed explanation. It'll take me a little while to evaluate what you've proposed here, but in the meantime: Keep in mind that the Content-Type header is not the only source for a MIME type. This algorithm needs to consider MIME types from all possible sources. -- Gordon P. Hemsley me@gphemsley.org http://gphemsley.org/ • http://gphemsley.org/blog/
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