[whatwg] Video with MIME type application/octet-stream

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Tue Sep 7 05:56:38 PDT 2010


On 9/7/10 4:11 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> It's garbage in at least UTF-8, Big5 and GBK.

Thanks.  I assume that applies to the OggS\0 sequence too, right?  I 
appreciate the data!

> I'm not sure what infrastructure is in place, but perhaps one could
> *not* sniff if Content-Type also indicates an encoding?

As long as "indicates an encoding" doesn't include UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 
(thanks, Apache!), that should be reasonable, I think.

-Boris



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