- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:05:18 +0100
- To: elharo@metalab.unc.edu
- CC: "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, David Orchard <orchard@pacificspirit.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, www-tag@w3.org
Elliotte Harold wrote: > > Julian Reschke wrote: > >> If they do they are in violation of the relevant specs. >> > > I'm not so sure. I'm not aware of any current specs that attempt to > prescribe the handling of a byte stream received over HTTP, though > certainly HTML 5 seems to think it can prescribe that. > > Regardless though, browsers *and other clients* will do with the byte > streams they receive what makes the most sense for them. No spec can > prohibit this. That is true, but then it's also true that in many cases, UAs indeed trust the content type header. BR, Julian
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