- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:26:38 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
HTML characterises the 'type' attribute as 'advisory', and goes on to put conflicts between the type and the media type of the actual resource (e.g., that returned in the Content-Type HTTP response header) upon the head of publishers, rather than implementors. Considering this, and considering the well-recognised problems setting HTTP headers on many Web servers, is it reasonable for an HTML implementation to prefer the media type indicated by 'type' over that returned with the resource, for purposes of dispatch? Is anyone aware of an implementation that does this to some degree, or any problems that might occur? Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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