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Re: Plain text files in internet explorer
From: Helmut Springer <delta () FaVeVe Uni-Stuttgart de>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 17:18:10 +0200
On 03 Sep 2002 at 01:43 +0200, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
There's few engineers who will praise the simultaneous genius of URLs, HTTP, and HTML as highly as myself. That they all spawned simultaneously is a feat of synergistic engineering unparalleled in recent memory. But MIME-types are a failure, and a stubborn refusal to admit such benefits nobody.
Pardon? MIME-types are a standard to declare the type of data, nothing more, nothing less. If the MIME-type of some data is declared by an untrusted entitiy, you should not trust this declaration. If the data is sent by some untrusted entity you should not trust the data. Usually the data will present more of a danger than the declaration, but then... What's your problem regarding MIME-types again? -- MfG/Best regards, "A Feature you cannot disable is helmut springer considered a bug" comp.os.unix
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- Plain text files in internet explorer John Hennessy (Aug 31)
- RE: Plain text files in internet explorer Alan Ramsbottom (Sep 01)
- RE: Plain text files in internet explorer Bernie Cosell (Sep 01)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Magnus Bodin (Sep 02)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Dan Kaminsky (Sep 02)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Philip Rowlands (Sep 02)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Dan Kaminsky (Sep 03)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Helmut Springer (Sep 03)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Marc Slemko (Sep 03)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Daniel Newby (Sep 04)
- RE: Plain text files in internet explorer Bernie Cosell (Sep 01)
- RE: Plain text files in internet explorer Alan Ramsbottom (Sep 01)
- GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Roland Postle (Sep 02)
- RE: GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Jason Coombs (Sep 03)
- Re: GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Gerhard den Hollander (Sep 03)
- RE: GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Dom De Vitto (Sep 03)
- Re: GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Blue Boar (Sep 03)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Bernie Cosell (Sep 02)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Eric Rostetter (Sep 03)