It was thus said that the Great Philip Newton once stated:
>
> (Also: it's not for nothing that MSIE does content sniffing for
> certain MIME types [IIRC, including text/plain and
> application/octet-stream], simply because there are/were web servers
> that sent the wrong content type so that MS decided the content type
> couldn't be trusted in all cases.)
And here I thought Microsoft did that to make sure it would execute any
code it saw, under any type of name. Just to be sure. Because, you know,
we're all about running programs.
-spc (Would like to apply a clue-by-four to the Microsoft programmer who
thought that executing code found in JPGs was a Good Idea ... )
