[whatwg] [mimesniff] Sniffing archives

[Adam Barth]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2012-11-29 20:25, Adam Barth wrote:
>> These are supported in Chrome.  That's what causes the download.  From
>
> Can you elaborate about what you mean by "supported"? Chrome sniffs for the
> type, and then offers to download as a result of that sniffing? How is that
> different from not sniffing in the first place?

They might otherwise be treated as a type that can be displayed
(rather than downloaded).  Also, some user agents treat downloads of
ZIP archives differently than other sorts of download (e.g., they
might offer to unzip them).

Adam