On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Larry Masinter <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Agree with this one.
>> With one addition: it must be clear, that if you "opt-in" for sniffing, than 
>> you MUST (SHOULD?) follow the mime-sniffing algorithm.
>
> I don't think that's possible. I think the crux of this issue is that I don't 
> think the "mime-sniffing algorithm" is currently structured in a way that 
> lets the results be "opt-in" on a case-by-case basis.
>
> For example, the algorithm starts with an analysis of existing content-type 
> headers, and winds up, in its state transition and communication paths, not 
> letting later stages of the algorithm know whether the supplied content-type 
> was malformed, whether there were two rather than one, etc.   So if you 
> follow the algorithm, you don't have any way (at least if you're just 
> following this algorithm) of "opting" later in ways that want to distinguish.

Sure, but those are things we can fix.  :)

Adam
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