Re: /usr/bin/open now in use through the alternatives system.
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes:
> Ignoring the server-provided MIME type and doing content-sniffing is a
> historical bug that browsers such as IE have had, and that has caused
> *many* problems (including security problems).
> [...]
Lots of good points.
I had thankfully forgotten about how IE had its own rules about how to
display things it downloaded, but of course it would still be relevant.
(https://web.archive.org/web/20110930155122/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775147.aspx)
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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Debian Developer
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