Ok. I'll file a bug report at http://bugreport.apple.com/ with several things that should be easy to change. In parallel, we can investigate moving the sniffing algorithm to WebKit.
Thanks, Adam On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Darin Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Adam Barth wrote: > >> One disadvantage of moving the algorithm is that we might make some >> unintended changes. > > Another disadvantage is that any other Mac OS X libraries or applications > that rely on the sniffing done by CFNetwork will no longer get the same > results as WebKit clients. > > Also, I don't think we've established yet if we can turn off the sniffing in > CFNetwork and keep the other desirable CFNetwork features working. There are > a number of closely related features, such as the one that determines the > suggested filename for a download. > > I think the concept of moving the sniffing into WebKit is great if we can > execute it successfully. I'm worried that it may be difficult to do that in > the Mac OS X version and the Windows version used by Safari. > > -- Darin > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
