Re: [HASMAT] Parsing Content-Type
Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 13 July 2010 11:04 UTC
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Subject: Re: [HASMAT] Parsing Content-Type
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On 13.07.2010 12:21, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > I was wondering if http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-abarth-mime-sniff > should not contain the error handling rules for parsing the Content-Type > as well. It seems potentially dangerous if one user agent were to treat > the value "text/html;" as bogus and fallback to "text/plain" whereas > another would treat it as "text/html". If the *intent* was to send "text/html" then the only problem I see is that some recipients would see plain text. Speaking of which: why would the fallback be "text/plain"? If the intent was different, why send the header in the first place? Best regards, Julian
- [HASMAT] Parsing Content-Type Anne van Kesteren
- Re: [HASMAT] Parsing Content-Type Julian Reschke
- Re: [HASMAT] Parsing Content-Type Adam Barth
- Re: [HASMAT] Parsing Content-Type Julian Reschke
- Re: [HASMAT] Parsing Content-Type Adam Barth
- Re: [HASMAT] Parsing Content-Type Julian Reschke