Re: [Netsurf-develop] Behaviour with lack of content type

[James B. <ja...@se...>]

> What is the correct behaviour when no content type is returned by a
> site for a page? Should the browser default to text or HTML?

The HTTP specification has this:

   Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a
   Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If
   and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the
   recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its
   content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the
   resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD
   treat it as type "application/octet-stream".

- http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html 7.2.1

Content type detection will have to wait after we release 1.0.

James