Re: [apps-discuss] Media Type for HTML 'snippets'?

Content-type annotations are only advisory, in a world where receivers regularly "sniff" the content and override the content-type label anyway.

Since you have an application which receives these snippits and processes them, and you don't want intermediaries or proxies to rewrite them, search them, or do any generic processing of the content,  perhaps "application/octet-stream" would be appropriate. Or no content-type at all... who cares?

The new registration for text/html  http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/html
points to the HTML5 spec;  snippets wrapped  <div>   </div> would be processed fine, so "text/html" would be appropriate.

If you mean for the snippets to be processed as XML and not as HTML, consider 
(from http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lilley-xml-mediatypes-00 ) 
"text/xml-external-parsed-entity" (or "application/xml-external-parsed-entity") might do you.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org]
> On Behalf Of Jan Algermissen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:03 AM
> To: apps-discuss@ietf.org application-layer protocols
> Subject: [apps-discuss] Media Type for HTML 'snippets'?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for an appropriate media type to use when serving HTML snippets
> that have a <div> as their root element.
> 
> I feel that serving HTML document fragments has become such a common
> scenario, I think there must be some solution already. However - I cannot find
> anything appropriate.
> 
> The closest thing is likely Atom's type attribute:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287#section-3.1.1.3
> 
> Can anyone provide a pointer or ideas?
> 
> Or is it time probably time for application/xhtml-div+xml
> 
> Jan
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