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Re: MIME sniffing

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Wed, 02 December 2020 13:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: MIME sniffing
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From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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On 12/2/20 7:24 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

>> The fundamental problem there is that the server doesn't have a reliable
>> way of knowing the content-type.   The server can't reliably tell it
>
> In which case it shouldn't send any. 

And the client ends up needing MIME sniffing code (and probably using 
it) anyway.

MIME email has the same problem; arguably the web inherited this problem 
from email.

Keith

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