[html5] r1288 - /

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Author: ianh
Date: 2008-02-29 12:11:24 -0800 (Fri, 29 Feb 2008)
New Revision: 1288

Modified:
   index
   source
Log:
[e] (0) The sniffing gets worse: Content-Encoding no longer prevents sniffing, and text/plain UTF-8 must get sniffed as well now.

Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index	2008-02-29 19:57:21 UTC (rev 1287)
+++ index	2008-02-29 20:11:24 UTC (rev 1288)
@@ -29978,11 +29978,9 @@
      for this resource, then jump to the last step in this set of steps.
 
    <li>
-    <p>If the resource was fetched over an HTTP protocol, and there is no
-     HTTP Content-Encoding header,<!-- XXX may have to remove the
-   last clause, if browsers ignore it -->
-     but there is an HTTP Content-Type header and it has a value whose bytes
-     exactly match one of the following three lines:</p>
+    <p>If the resource was fetched over an HTTP protocolm and there is an
+     HTTP Content-Type header and the value of the first such header has
+     bytes that exactly match one of the following lines:</p>
 
     <table>
      <thead>
@@ -29992,35 +29990,40 @@
        <th>Textual representation
 
      <tbody>
-      <tr><!-- Old Apache default -->
+      <tr><!-- Very old Apache default -->
 
        <td>74 65 78 74 2f 70 6c 61 69 6e
 
        <td><code title="">text/plain</code>
 
-      <tr><!-- Modern Apache default -->
+      <tr><!-- Old Apache default -->
 
        <td>74 65 78 74 2f 70 6c 61 69 6e 3b 20 63 68 61 72 73 65 74 3d 49 53
         4f 2d 38 38 35 39 2d 31
 
        <td><code title="">text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1</code>
 
-      <tr><!-- Debian's arbitrarily different Modern Apache default -->
+      <tr><!-- Debian's arbitrarily different Apache default -->
 
        <td>74 65 78 74 2f 70 6c 61 69 6e 3b 20 63 68 61 72 73 65 74 3d 69 73
         6f 2d 38 38 35 39 2d 31
 
        <td><code title="">text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1</code>
-        <!-- XXX apparently this is newly required?
-      <tr> [ Someone else's arbitrarily different Apache default ]
-       <td>74 65 78 74 2f 70 6c 61 69 6e 3b 20 63 68 61 72 73 65 74 3d 55 54 46 2d 38
+
+      <tr><!-- Someone else's arbitrarily different Apache default (who?) -->
+
+       <td>74 65 78 74 2f 70 6c 61 69 6e 3b 20 63 68 61 72 73 65 74 3d 55 54
+        46 2d 38
+
        <td><code title="">text/plain; charset=UTF-8</code>
--->
-        
     </table>
 
     <p>...then jump to the <em title="content-type sniffing: text or
      binary"><a href="#content-type4">text or binary</a></em> section below.</p>
+    <!-- while IE sniffs all text/plain, this will continue to grow as
+    people add new defaults. Hopefully IE will stop the madness in due
+    course and stop sniffing anything but the above... -->
+    
 
    <li>
     <p>If <var title="">official type</var> is "unknown/unknown" or

Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source	2008-02-29 19:57:21 UTC (rev 1287)
+++ source	2008-02-29 20:11:24 UTC (rev 1288)
@@ -27660,11 +27660,9 @@
    Content-Type headers for this resource, then jump to the last step
    in this set of steps.</p></li>
 
-   <li><p>If the resource was fetched over an HTTP protocol, and there
-   is no HTTP Content-Encoding header,<!-- XXX may have to remove the
-   last clause, if browsers ignore it --> but there is an HTTP
-   Content-Type header and it has a value whose bytes exactly match
-   one of the following three lines:</p>
+   <li><p>If the resource was fetched over an HTTP protocolm and there
+   is an HTTP Content-Type header and the value of the first such
+   header has bytes that exactly match one of the following lines:</p>
 
     <table>
      <thead>
@@ -27672,25 +27670,27 @@
        <th>Bytes in Hexadecimal
        <th>Textual representation
      <tbody>
-      <tr> <!-- Old Apache default -->
+      <tr> <!-- Very old Apache default -->
        <td>74 65 78 74 2f 70 6c 61 69 6e
        <td><code title="">text/plain</code>
-      <tr> <!-- Modern Apache default -->
+      <tr> <!-- Old Apache default -->
        <td>74 65 78 74 2f 70 6c 61 69 6e 3b 20 63 68 61 72 73 65 74 3d 49 53 4f 2d 38 38 35 39 2d 31
        <td><code title="">text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1</code>
-      <tr> <!-- Debian's arbitrarily different Modern Apache default -->
+      <tr> <!-- Debian's arbitrarily different Apache default -->
        <td>74 65 78 74 2f 70 6c 61 69 6e 3b 20 63 68 61 72 73 65 74 3d 69 73 6f 2d 38 38 35 39 2d 31
        <td><code title="">text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1</code>
-<!-- XXX apparently this is newly required?
-      <tr> [ Someone else's arbitrarily different Apache default ]
+      <tr> <!-- Someone else's arbitrarily different Apache default (who?) -->
        <td>74 65 78 74 2f 70 6c 61 69 6e 3b 20 63 68 61 72 73 65 74 3d 55 54 46 2d 38
        <td><code title="">text/plain; charset=UTF-8</code>
--->
     </table>
 
     <p>...then jump to the <em title="content-type sniffing: text or
     binary">text or binary</em> section below.</p>
 
+    <!-- while IE sniffs all text/plain, this will continue to grow as
+    people add new defaults. Hopefully IE will stop the madness in due
+    course and stop sniffing anything but the above... -->
+
    </li>
 
    <li><p>If <var title="">official type</var> is "unknown/unknown" or