Re: [Investigate expected results to http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/http/content-type/sniffing/ tests in collaboration with the IETF HTTP WG (ACTION-44)]

T.V Raman wrote:
> This is a very good summary.
> 
> My own preference would be to move toward a world where content
> sniffing is discouraged, rather than to evovle to one where all
> bad behavior from the past is codified into future law.
> ...

FYI - two updates to the original summary:


 > 3) "illegal characters"
 >
 > Some test cases, such as 16, claim the contents contains "invalid 
text/plain characters". At least case 16 doesn't. 
(<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2008JanMar/0122.html>)

UPDATE: as explained in 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Feb/0108.html>, 
this is based on a requirement made in RFC2046 
(<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046#page-9>).

 > 6) conflict with Webarch and TAG finding
 >
 > The current text in HTML5 contradicts WebArch 
(<http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#error-handling>) and the TAG finding 
"mime respect", in particular "avoid silent recovery" 
(<http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect.html#silent-recovery>).
 >
 > There seems to be broad agreement that it's good to document what 
widely deployed user agents actually do with respect to content 
sniffing. However, there was *no* agreement that it's HTML5's task to 
make that a "MUST" level requirement 
(<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jan/0214.html>).

UPDATE: in the meantime, the latest editor's draft 
(<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/> makes content type sniffing optional 
in at least one case.

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 15 February 2008 12:24:52 UTC