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Media Type Sniffing
draft-abarth-mime-sniff-06

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Adam Barth , Ian Hickson
Last updated 2011-09-26 (Latest revision 2011-01-24)
Replaced by draft-ietf-websec-mime-sniff
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft is available in these formats:

Abstract

Many web servers supply incorrect Content-Type header fields with their HTTP responses. In order to be compatible with these servers, user agents consider the content of HTTP responses as well as the Content-Type header fields when determining the effective media type of the response. This document describes an algorithm for determining the effective media type of HTTP responses that balances security and compatibility considerations. Please send feedback on this draft to apps-discuss@ietf.org.

Authors

Adam Barth
Ian Hickson

(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)