Vocabularies issues

[Norman Gray]

On 2008 Jan 31, at 15:27, Tony Linde wrote:

> Or http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies/issues.html 
>  to those of us without extension-guessing browsers :)


Heh.  Well as it happens, I slightly stuffed up the internal  
redirection, so by accident it turns out that .../issues.doc, .../ 
issues.wibble.exe and so on all return exactly the same content, with  
exactly the same (correct) content-type.

A browser which guesses extensions in this way is broken, and the bug  
should be reported (this is IE, right?  OK...).  Since the content- 
type is present in the HTTP response, the browser is explicitly  
forbidden from either sniffing the content or guessing based on the  
extension.  In other words, it's because IE _is_ an extension-guessing  
browser that it's stuffing up.

See you,

Norman
[deep world-weary sigh, as he dismounts his Thursday hobbyhorse]


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