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 > RAR archive formats. However, no major browser seems to support them > natively (they all prompt for download), and it's not clear whether > the type detection is a product of the browser code or the OS, or > whether it is used beyond choosing an appropriate file extension for > the download. > > Are there any valid usecases for explicitly sniffing archive formats > instead of letting them default to application/octet-stream like other > binary files would? Note that Henri Sivonen has previously raised the > issue that ZIP-based formats (like office suite documents), for > example, would be misleadingly sniffed as ZIP files, and there is no > easy way around that. > > -- > Gordon P. Hemsley > m...@gphemsley.org > http://gphemsley.org/ • http://gphemsley.org/blog/ -- Gordon P. Hemsley m...@gphemsley.org http://gphemsley.org/ • http://gphemsley.org/blog/