R: Re: Perhaps this exists already, and if not, it should...

[antonio montagnani]

Inviato da Samsung Mobile

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Subject: Re: Perhaps this exists already, and if not, it should... 
From: Michael Hennebry  
To: Community support for Fedora users  
CC:

On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 14.04.2012 00:07, schrieb Michael Hennebry:
> > On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:19:23 -0400,
> > > You mean incorrectly. Like when I tried to provide links to html source
> > > using a text/plain mimetype and internet explorer disregarded this and
> > > treated the pages as html instead based on the URL ending in .html.
> >
> > Perhaps it be useful to be able to tell a browser --force text/plain
>
> and what do you think is the intention of "Content-Type: text/plain"?
> MSIE is simply to stupid to act as standards saying

I was suggesting that if either the browser or
the server does not know how to play nice,
the user might want to make a firm suggestion.
I've occasionally been annoyed by a text, not .txt,
file mime-typed application/binary or some such.
> noobs saying "but MSIE behaves correctly if the server is misconfigured"
> does not chnage this fact - a client must not make assumptions in
> cases where standards are defining correct behavior

Perhaps this exists already, and if not, it should...

[Reindl Harald]

Am 14.04.2012 13:43, schrieb Antonio.montagnani:
> I was suggesting that if either the browser or
> the server does not know how to play nice,
> the user might want to make a firm suggestion.
> I've occasionally been annoyed by a text, not .txt,
> file mime-typed application/binary or some such.

no thanks

there are really few servers which are configured wrong
poblems should be solved where they are and not on the
other side to hide them

if you hit one of this servers write a mail to the
admin if he has ever considered to do his job