- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:08:14 -0700
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
> Let's assume that an HTTP user agent uses PUT to send an entitity body > to an > HTTP server, but neglects to provide a content-type header. What's the > recommend server behaviour for subsequent GET requests to that > resource? > > 1) do not send a content type header (server refuses to guess), > > 2a) guess content type based on "extension" (hmph...) or > > 2b) guess content type based on content (for instance after > successfully > parsing as HTML) > > 3) ...? > > > Note that 2a) is what currently Apache/moddav does, and this really > seems to > be a very bad idea. It is what the owner of that URI-space has configured the server to do. The reason it does that is to support a whole host of features beyond webdav that should not be disabled just because one authoring interface has no knowledge of them. ....Roy
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