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Bug 26501 - "If the check-for-apache-bug flag is set"
Summary: "If the check-for-apache-bug flag is set"
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: MIME (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Gordon P. Hemsley
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+mimespec
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Reported: 2014-08-01 20:53 UTC by Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
Modified: 2019-03-30 20:00 UTC (History)
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Description Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-08-01 20:53:52 UTC 
http://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/#determining-the-sniffed-mime-type-of-a-resource

The check-for-apache-bug flag is set by the "supplied MIME type detection algorithm", but it's not clear at all whether that algorithm is invoked by the "MIME type sniffing algorithm" algorithm, and even if it is, it's not clear what the scope of the flag is. Is it UA global? Thread-local? Scoped to the parent algorithm? Scoped to the current algorithm? Something else?