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

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 8 11:06:42 PDT 2010


On 9/8/10 11:05 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> It's not that hard if it's acceptable to restart the network request
> (just do it again, with a flag not-to-sniff).

It's common enough to not be ok to restart, though.  And even the 
restart behavior can be pretty complicated, since it requires not just 
redoing the network request but has interactions with session history, 
etc, etc.

It's a huge can of worms.

-Boris



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