> I still see dangers with that. IE doesn't support overrideMimeType, so
> if you don't want to leave it in the dust and want xml, you have to
> serve as text/xml anyway. Furthermore I see people trying to make it XML
> while it is HTML really and probably not well-formed. Instead of doing
> it the right way in the beginning. I'd say MIME type matters, nothing else.
>
> Maybe I just can't imagine a situation where this is useful.

The situation where the user is sending XML to the browser but is
sending the wrong headers (either intentionally, or not). I didn't
realize that overrideMimeType didn't exist in IE, though. So it sounds
like users will just have to tough it out for now.

--John

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