Re: Revisiting Authoritative Metadata (was: The failure of Appendix C as a transition technique)

* Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
>> I do not think "make browsers render this as plain text" is a must-have
>> feature but "prevent browsers from treating this as something they know"
>> certainly is and you cannot do that reliably via magic numbers in files.
>
>CSP handles that kind of thing.

The CSP 1.0 proposal even points out explicitly that it does not do so,
c.f. <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Mar/0028.html>.
What would help is `X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff`, but if you look
at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471020#c37> then there
appears to be no consensus whether this feature's needed at all and why.
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