Vulnerability Development: RE: Plain text files in internet explorer

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie () fantasyfarm com>]

On 1 Sep 2002, at 14:47, Alan Ramsbottom wrote:

> John Hennessy [mailto:johnh () charm net wrote:
>
> > Is it just me or is impossible to have plain text in internet
> > explorer?
> It's everyone. Read all about it (datasniffing) here:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/networking/m
> oniker/overview/appendix_a.asp
>
>  "A MIME type is ambiguous if it is 'text/plain',
> 'application/octet-stream', an empty string, or null (that is, the
> server failed to provide it)."
Is this actually specified someplace in some relevant RFC?  I can't 
comment on application/octet-stream, but I've never before heard that 
text/plain was ambiguous.  I thought it was crystal-clear and meant, 
well, "plain text" [basically a sequence of characters in whatever 
charset is specified].

Is this interpretation some idiosyncracy of Microsoft's or is it actually 
an RFC-supported 'correct' interpretation of the text/plain MIME type?

  /Bernie\

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