- From: Gordon P. Hemsley <me@gphemsley.org>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:55:19 -0500
- To: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Adam Barth <whatwg@adambarth.com>
On 8/27/13 12:26 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > The current mimesniff spec says that when the Apache workaround is > applied sniffing should still be able to detect the content as > PostScript, images, videos, archives, audio formats, etc. > > I feel that this poses an unacceptable security risk due to allowing > content through firewalls that is then interpreted differently by a UA. > In particular, postscript and media formats can be used to attack > viewers and decoders. > > Web compat does not require this behavior: Gecko only allows > "text/plain" and "application/octet-stream" as output types when the > Apache workaround is being applied, and we have been successfully > shipping this for a while. I would strongly oppose changing the Gecko > behavior here due to the security implications. > > Given the security risks and the lack of web compat issues, I believe > the spec should not require the behavior it currently requires. > > -Boris I'm inclined to agree. Having heard no objection (or, indeed, any discussion whatsoever) in the last 3 months, I plan to move ahead with this proposed change. Anyone else have anything to say before I do? -- Gordon P. Hemsley me@gphemsley.org http://gphemsley.org/
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