Firefox - gedit is the best!

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Oct 28 22:34:03 UTC 2013



Am 28.10.2013 23:26, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
> On 28.10.2013 23:02, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 28.10.2013 22:58, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
>>> On 28.10.2013 22:34, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 28.10.2013 22:22, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
>>>>> On 28.10.2013 22:14, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> so at least provide a sample URL
>>>>>
>>>>> Here you go:
>>>>> https://github.com/gammu/gsm-docs/blob/master/standards/3gpp/TP-000024/23040-009.doc?raw=true
>>>>
>>>> here you go: text/plain (last line of the wget-output)
>>>> so the behavior is correct, and that is why you should
>>>> provide infos while seek for help in the first post
>>>>
>>>> [harry at srv-rhsoft:/downloads]$ wget
>>>> https://github.com/gammu/gsm-docs/blob/master/standards/3gpp/TP-000024/23040-009.doc?raw=true
>>>> Resolving raw.github.com (raw.github.com)... 185.31.16.133
>>>> Connecting to raw.github.com (raw.github.com)|185.31.16.133|:443... connected.
>>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>>>> Length: 251392 (246K) [text/plain]
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help. It means that content of downloaded file is
>>> irrelevant for FF.
>>
>> *otherwise* it would be a bug and the behavior is correct
>>
>> FF *must not* look in the content
>> a browser which does is broken in case of a specified mime-type
>>
> 
> Could you provide some RFC or other standard to back that statement?

*why did you remove the links i posted as example*

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18337630/what-is-x-content-type-options-nosniff
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg622941%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_sniffing

MIME sniffing was, and still is, used by some web browsers, including notably Microsoft's Internet Explorer, in an
attempt to help web sites which do not correctly signal the MIME type of web content display correctly.

your URL *does* it sends a mime-type!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME_type

https://www.google.at/search?q=mime-sniff
http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Risky-MIME-sniffing-in-Internet-Explorer-746229.html

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