Re: [tlug] Firefox 3.0.1 doesn't respect <meta http-equiv="content-type">

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2008-09-17 11:41 +0900 (Wed), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > It's not modifying that information...
>   
>
> It is, indeed. If the encapsulation says, "this chunk of data is
> image/jpeg", and you chose to ignore that based on guessing at content,
> then it is indeed modifying the interpretation of the document from what
> the encpsulating protocol requested, which is what I meant.
>   

Amusingly this is exactly what the gnome nautilus file manager use to 
do.  It would refuse to open files with the correct application because 
it decided the file contents didn't match the extension.  Needless to 
say this didn't work very well[1].

Edward

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/planner/+bug/94168