19937 2012-11-11 18:36:29 +0000 "Determining the supplied media type" should return "has-content-type" rather than using a global 2012-11-16 22:08:38 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG MIME unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED P3 normal Unsorted 1 ian gphemsley mike sideshowbarker+mimespec oldest_to_newest 78200 0 ian 2012-11-11 18:36:29 +0000 # [19:28] <Hixie> GPHemsley: what has the "has content type" flag? is it a system-global flag? # [19:29] <GPHemsley> Hixie: If I understand what you're asking, yes. # [19:30] <GPHemsley> Hixie: It is set in the "supplied media type detection algorithm" and checked again in the "media type sniffing algorithm" # [19:30] <Hixie> GPHemsley: so if two pages are both going to read a resource's mime type at the same time, they interfere? # [19:31] <GPHemsley> Hixie: Oh, it's not that global. This entire spec assumes each resource analysis is self-contained. # [19:32] <Hixie> GPHemsley: "assumes" gets us into a lot of trouble :-P # [19:32] <GPHemsley> Hixie: Yeah... hadn't considered the possibility # [19:32] <Hixie> i recommend just making it a return value # [19:32] <Hixie> return a pair (type, had-content-type) # [19:32] <Hixie> or some such 78423 1 gphemsley 2012-11-16 22:04:52 +0000 I opted instead to attach metadata directly to each resource: http://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/#handling-a-resource Let me know if this doesn't go far enough to assuage your concerns. 78424 2 gphemsley 2012-11-16 22:08:38 +0000 https://github.com/whatwg/mimesniff/commit/db44b30f0afcb91c38697791c6fb396192087080