- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:45:13 +0000
- To: John Kemp <john@jkemp.net>
- Cc: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>, "Eric J. Bowman" <eric@bisonsystems.net>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:28 PM, John Kemp <john@jkemp.net> wrote: > The least-specific MIME type I know of is application/octet-stream. Is that > sufficient for "I don't know"? Why don't more servers (already) implement > this as default behaviour? Well you know, software is hard. Let's go shopping! http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz/archives/004654.html https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14095 Apart from that PHP defaults to text/html and I'm sure there's a whole lot more weirdness out there. Decoupling content and type of content was just a bad idea and people get it wrong all the time. And whenever something new comes along (e.g. application caches) having to configure the server properly is one of the most oft-cited complaints (so we started using the file signature which we added with some foresight instead). -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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