Re: Firewall problems with RDF MIME type?

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Phil Archer wrote:

> I wonder though how a firewall goes to jump because of a MIME type...

A fair number of content-inspecting firewalls look at the content of the
steam; guess what it is and then match that wiht a mime type. If there is
a mismatch, says GIF or ZIP mimetype with an executable or MS pif file -
then it is blocked.

Dw

Received on Monday, 18 April 2005 09:21:42 UTC