[whatwg] 2.7.4. Content-Type sniffing

[Adam Barth]

Note that page lists three signatures for SWF, each of which is a
sequence of three capital ASCII characters.  These seem likely to
match non-SWF content.

Adam


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Mark Pilgrim <mark at diveintomark.org> wrote:
> The spec has a note saying "I'd like to add types like MPEG, AVI,
> Flash, Java, etc, to the above table."
> http://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html seems to have an
> up-to-date list of many file signatures, including SWF (43 57 53), AVI
> (52 49 46 46 xx xx xx xx 41 56 49 20 4C 49 53 54), Java class files
> (CA FE BA BE), MPEG files (00 00 01 Bx), and so on.
>
> Cheers,
> -Mark
>