Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes: > Ignoring the server-provided MIME type and doing content-sniffing is a > historical bug that browsers such as IE have had, and that has caused > *many* problems (including security problems). > [...]
Lots of good points. I had thankfully forgotten about how IE had its own rules about how to display things it downloaded, but of course it would still be relevant. (https://web.archive.org/web/20110930155122/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775147.aspx) -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Debian Developer