[whatwg] overriding MIME type in accept attribute?

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at iinet.net.au
Mon Jul 5 16:59:20 PDT 2004


Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote:
> Another issue: on Windows, if I try to upload a file with no 
> extension, how is the UA supposed to work out what the MIME type is? 
> Content sniffing?

   I would expect it to send the file as "application/octet-steam", 
which is for any arbitary binary data.  That's what current UAs do.

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Lachlan Hunt

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