- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 00:48:59 -0400
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Hi Tim, On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:40:37PM -0700, Tim Bray wrote: > The draft text above is correct as it stands - if there's no media type > provided, the error case we're discussing can't occur. You're arguing > that it would be worth saying that it's OK to guess in the case where > there's no media-type header? Not sure that's worth the trouble of > asserting, but if people really want to... -Tim Hmm.. No, I'm just saying that I believe that RFC 2616 is authoritative here. And what I interpret it to say (viz a viz "if and only if"), is that if a media type is present, an agent MUST NOT guess. MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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