I prefer that the default be text/plain. This is the default for
MIME, but more importantly, I much prefer seeing the occasional HTML
source interpreted as plain text (when text/html was omitted) than
seeing a non-HTML text file mangled by a "forgiving" HTML parser. I
don't buy the argument about compatibility with HTTP 0.9 (there HTML
was the only reasonable choice) nor with Mosaic (it's still called
"World-Wide Web", not "Mosaic" :-).
> HTTP servers probably should try to include a content-type: text/html
> anyway, if that's what they mean.
Exactly.
--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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