On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Breno de Medeiros wrote: > > > > > 2. This technique may prevent legitimate uses of the spec by > > > developers who do not have the ability to set the appropriate > > > header. > > > > Many developers can control Content-Type headers using .htaccess files > > (and their ilk). > > And many others cannot. This is particularly irksome in outsourcing > situations where you have only partial control of the hosting > environment or depend on non-technical users to perform administrative > tasks.
Note that if the spec says that UAs are to ignore the Content-Type header, this is a violation of the HTTP and MIME specifications. If this is intentional, then the HTTP or MIME specs should be changed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'