Am 02.12.2020 um 12:42 schrieb Keith Moore:
On 12/2/20 12:00 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
The biggest mistake in the Web protocols was accepting the dictum of
being permissive in what is accepted. Horrors like MIME sniffing might
had been avoided if enough browsers had insisted on literal
interpretation of content type.
The fundamental problem there is that the server doesn't have a reliable
way of knowing the content-type. The server can't reliably tell it
In which case it shouldn't send any. Unfortunately, some servers did in
the past, and clients worked around that.
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Best regards, Julian
