- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:00:14 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Breno de Medeiros <breno@google.com>
- Cc: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>, "www-talk@w3.org" <www-talk@w3.org>
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Breno de Medeiros wrote: > > > > > 2. This technique may prevent legitimate uses of the spec by > > > developers who do not have the ability to set the appropriate > > > header. > > > > Many developers can control Content-Type headers using .htaccess files > > (and their ilk). > > And many others cannot. This is particularly irksome in outsourcing > situations where you have only partial control of the hosting > environment or depend on non-technical users to perform administrative > tasks. Note that if the spec says that UAs are to ignore the Content-Type header, this is a violation of the HTTP and MIME specifications. If this is intentional, then the HTTP or MIME specs should be changed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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