[whatwg] document.contentType

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Wed Jun 3 16:49:21 PDT 2009


João Eiras wrote:
> I think the major advantage of document.contentType is to know the value 
> of the Content-Type header (without charset) sent by the server.

That's not what document.contentType returns in Gecko, though... 
(especially if the server-sent value was empty, or didn't parse as a 
valid content-type header).  What's the use case for knowing what the 
server sent, as opposed to what the UA is treating the page as?

-Boris



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