[whatwg] EventSource - Handling a charset in the content-type header

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> I noticed Ian updated the specification, but it seems current 
> implementations differ quite wildly. E.g. Gecko happily ignores
> 
>  Content-Type: text/event-stream;charset=tralala
> 
> as does Opera instead of closing the connection. Chrome bites, but happily
> ignores
> 
>  Content-Type: text/event-stream;tralala
> 
> along with Opera and Gecko. Safari 5.0.5 bites on that however and also on
> charset=tralala. All browsers seem to allow (note the trailing semi-colon):
> 
>  Content-Type: text/event-stream;
> 
> Are we sure we want this strict checking of media type parameters? I 
> always thought the media type itself was what strict checking should be 
> done upon, but that its parameters were extension points, not points of 
> failure.

Fair enough. I've changed the spec to ignore parameters on 
text/event-stream.

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