On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <phil...@opera.com> wrote: > > The main reason to care about the MIME type is some kind of "doing the right > thing" by not letting people get away with misconfigured servers. Sometimes > I feel it's just a waste of everyone's time though, it would generally be > less work for both browsers and authors to not bother.
I disagree that this is the main reason. I was a web developer before being a browser developer and I can say it was highly annoying dealing with browsers that sniff content types. There were times where we wanted to send a file as plain text or binary data but the browser would sniff it and attempt to handle it. Chris. -- http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz