[whatwg] [mimesniff] More issues on the MIME Sniffing spec

[Peter Occil]

I want to respond to the following issues in the MIME Sniffing spec:

Resources

I suggest the following wording for the issue box starting with "A resource is..."

   A resource is a data item or message, such as a file or an HTTP response.

I believe this covers the cases that would normally be associated with a MIME type.

Contexts

I don't think the word "context" needs to be specially defined.  The start of section 8
could be rewritten to remove the definition:

[[
In certain cases, it is only useful to identify resources that belong to a certain subset of MIME types. In these cases, it is appropriate to use a context-specific sniffing algorithm in place of the MIME type sniffing algorithm in order to determine the sniffed MIME type of a resource. 

This specification defines the following context-specific sniffing algorithms.
]]

Apache Bug

As for the Apache bug flag, would it be useful to additionally check the HTTP 
headers for a Server header and check if it contains "Apache/"?  I don't know which
version of Apache the bug involved was fixed in, so I can't suggest a more accurate
string check.

MP3 Sniffing

Finally, the Firefox team has recently included a patch to support sniffing MP3 
files better [1] and would like to document it and add it to the MIME Sniffing 
spec. [2]  The disadvantage, though, is that more than 512 bytes
are required for an accurate detection.

--Peter

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=862088
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879429