[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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