[whatwg] [mimesniff] Review request: Parsing a MIME type

[Gordon P. Hemsley]

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Peter Occil <poccil14 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> * The word "base64" can only appear at the end of the MIME type, so that a
>> data URL like
>>   "data:application/example;base64;foo=bar,AA==" will not be encoded in
>> base64, strictly speaking. A parameter name (base64 or otherwise)
>>   cannot otherwise appear without a parameter value.
>
> As I mentioned, "strictly speaking" doesn't matter, as all browsers do
> the same thing, according to the resource you linked: base64
> parameters with values are fine; base64 boolean parameters in other
> than last place are warnings. (Not sure what the reasoning behind that
> distinction is, but that's what reality is.)

It seems I read the purpose of the test wrong for base64 parameters
with values: They're fine insofar as they're allowed, but they don't
trigger base64 decoding (except in Safari?), unlike if the boolean
base64 parameter is in a non-last position.

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