- From: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@cityonline.se>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:48:20 +0100
- To: liam@htmlhelp.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: kaj@cityonline.se
>>>>> "LQ" == Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com> writes: [ About sometimes ignoring the http content-type ] LQ> In general, yes, but there are cases in which guessing can be LQ> more appropriate than simply ignoring the badly served file. For LQ> example, if foo.css is linked with <LINK REL=StyleSheet LQ> HREF="foo.css" TYPE="text/css"> and the server returns a LQ> Content-Type that is definitely not a style sheet (e.g., LQ> text/plain or application/octet-stream), then I think that using LQ> the TYPE attribute would be more appropriate than ignoring the LQ> file. However, if <A HREF="foo.css" TYPE="text/css"> is used How about saying that a specific type (i.e. application/octet-stream) means 'unknown', so when a useragent comes by something that is application/octet-stream it tries to guess (by LINK TYPE or looking at the file or anything) the correct content-type. This seems to me to be the way that application/octet-stream is used today anyway (i.e. to say 'I couldn't find the right type for this content'). // Rasmus -- kaj@cityonline.se --------------- Rasmus Kaj - http://www.e.kth.se/~kaj/ \ CityOnLine IB Production AB - http://www.cityonline.se/ \------------------------- Unite for Java! - http://www.javalobby.org/
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