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life without MIME type sniffing?

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By: Dan Connolly

In a recent item on IE8 Security, Eric Lawrence, Security Program Manager for Internet Explorer, introduced a work-around to the security risks associated with content-type sniffing: an authoritative=true parameter on the Content-Type header in HTTP. This re-started discussion of...

  • content-type
  • error-handling
  • html
  • html5
  • mime

A story about namespaces, MIME types, and URIs

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By: Dan Connolly

Noone seems to know where the story begins; Ian Jacobs reminded me about magic namespaces as I enjoyed breakfast on Thursday; Steven Pemberton and Bert Bos had told it to him, perhaps prompted by Ian Hickson's question in the URI-based...

  • html
  • mime
  • uri
  • xhtml
  • xml

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