Re: default return is "text/html"?
Rick Troth (troth@rice.edu)
Thu, 14 Jul 1994 10:05:00 -0500 (CDT)
> I mean, come on. We are connecting to HTTP, "HyperText" Transfer
> Protocol, shouldn't the default be text/html?
Good point.
What this suggests, then, is that HyperTextTPDs should
*always* include a content-type header line. In other words,
the server should pin a default type (text/html) on all questionable objects.
I mean, come on. What's so hard about tacking on ".html"
to any file it serves-out? That's just one way to eliminate the
ambiguity. There are others.
Or (again) the clients could be "smarter", and upon seeing
"<html>" or even just "<head>" or any other SGML-ish strings,
decide, oh yeah, this *is* HTML, otherwise make it plain text.
> Garrett.
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Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>, Rice University, Information Systems