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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC|[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-08-02 12:50 ------- **** DON'T **** add other people's names to a Cc: list, SPAMMER. (In reply to comment #24) > For what it's worth, when I brought this up on the dev mailing list almost > five > years ago (when the bug was filed) the answer was a deafening silence. You have the advantage of me. I don't recollect your post, so I can't say whether it had anything like a coherent argument. > As I said in bug 13986, at this point things are pretty much moot: all the > browsers have been forced to work around this Apache issue by breaking the > HTTP > spec and either sniffing for the "real" type (e.g. IE) or just trying to guess > whether the data should really be application/octet-stream (e.g. Gecko) when > they get a type of text/plain. Utter rubbish. MSIE has *always* broken HTTP. That's how the first email worms got into Outlook (which shares the same bug), back in about 1997. > Given that, trying further to get you guys to change this broken behavior is > just a waste of time: chances are there will be no response anyway, and even > if > there is it won't help HTTP UAs, who'll have to continue working around this > problem in all the existing Apache installs. As it happens, I'd support changing this particular default. But not retrospectively. Nor so strongly as to take the driving seat. And I'm certainly not going to argue the case in bugzilla: I just need to remove myself from getting mailed twice due to some moron messing with Cc: lists. -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
