* Larry Masinter wrote:
>Going back to the "scope" question, should the mimesniff document cover
>sniffing in contexts other than browsers, e.g., by web servers during
>file upload, by proxies or firewalls or gateways, by spiders or search
>engines, etc.?

I note that the current draft does not seem to address web browser up-
loads (if a browser uploads a GIF as image/jpeg, and the server echoes
data and label back verbatim, and then the browser treats that as a GIF
even though it just said it's a JPEG, that would seem to be bad), but 
more generally I would rather have a "web browser only" specification
soon and then talk about what other components might be relevant and
how to address those, than try and address all of it at once.
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