(It seems I somehow managed to not send this to the list the first
time around. Addendum included.)
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2012-11-29 20:25, Adam Barth wrote:
These are
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote:
Also, some user agents treat downloads of
ZIP archives differently than other sorts of download (e.g., they
might offer to unzip them).
Which user agents? For this use case, merely sniffing for the zip
magic number is
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2012-12-04 08:40, Adam Barth wrote:
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de
wrote:
On 2012-11-29 20:25, Adam Barth wrote:
These are supported in Chrome. That's what causes the
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2012-12-04 08:40, Adam Barth wrote:
They might otherwise be treated as a type that can be displayed
(rather than downloaded). Also, some user
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote:
To be more specific:
(1) Safari doesn't appear to prompt the user for any downloads. It
just automatically downloads any file it can't handle.
(2) If you allow Safari to open safe files that it downloads, ZIP
appears to be one of them. Gzip and
On 2012-11-29 20:25, Adam Barth wrote:
These are supported in Chrome. That's what causes the download. From
Can you elaborate about what you mean by supported? Chrome sniffs for
the type, and then offers to download as a result of that sniffing? How
is that different from not sniffing in
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2012-11-29 20:25, Adam Barth wrote:
These are supported in Chrome. That's what causes the download. From
Can you elaborate about what you mean by supported? Chrome sniffs for the
type, and then offers to
On 2012-12-04 08:40, Adam Barth wrote:
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2012-11-29 20:25, Adam Barth wrote:
These are supported in Chrome. That's what causes the download. From
Can you elaborate about what you mean by supported? Chrome sniffs
To be clear, I'm asking this because I would like to remove the
sniffing of archive types from the mimesniff spec if there aren't any
valid usecases.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Gordon P. Hemsley gphems...@gmail.com wrote:
The mimesniff spec currently includes signatures for ZIP, gzip, and
These are supported in Chrome. That's what causes the download. From
your comment, it's not clear to me if you are correctly reverse
engineering existing user agents. The techniques we used to create
this list originally are quite sophisticated and involved a massive
amount of data [1]. It
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