RE: ACTION-472: New Mime-web-info draft

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Larry Masinter wrote:

> Wasn't there a proposed (or implemented) "I really mean the content-type
> header please don't sniff" HTTP header?

Yes: "MIME-Handling: Sniffing Opt-Out"

Discussion thread here:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2008JulSep/0002.html

I mean it will always lead to "I really mean it" and "I really really mean 
it" (wash, rinse, repeat)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yves Lafon [mailto:ylafon@w3.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:50 AM
> To: Eric J. Bowman
> Cc: nathan@webr3.org; ashok.malhotra@oracle.com; Jonathan Rees; Larry Masinter; Noah Mendelsohn; www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: Re: ACTION-472: New Mime-web-info draft
>
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Eric J. Bowman wrote:
>
>> Nathan wrote:
>>>
>>> Aye, and I guess classing some URIs as "media types" based on the
>>> first x chars of the lexical form of the URI would not be a good idea
>>> (Opacity and all).
>>>
>>
>> It's a fine debate to have on rest-discuss, where we can talk about the
>> various philosophies of how self-descriptive messaging might function,
>> without limiting ourselves to the constraints imposed by HTTP.  The
>> HTTP WG would be the right forum to suggest, in the absence of a
>> Content-Type header, falling back to some other header which allows
>> URIs as tokens -- without having anything to do with media types.  Here,
>> though, we should treat decisions like the registry being targeted at
>> humans or not being URI-extensible (or existing at all), as having
>> already been made, IMO.
>
> The current fallback is sniffing, not another header. Adding a new header
> won't solve the issues outlined by Larry's document.
> That said, minting URIs to query a registry might be helpful.
>
>

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Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2011 16:25:08 UTC