Re: Origin vs Authority; use of HTTPS (draft-nottingham-site-meta-01)

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.

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Received on Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:01:05 UTC