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Firefox has had no need for these. It seems less weird behavior is better.

See #30 for context.

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Firefox has had no need for these. It seems less weird behavior is better.

See #30 for context.
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annevk commented Nov 13, 2018

(Note that there is much more cleanup possible here now that "extract a MIME type" is almost a thing, but it seems worthwhile doing that separately from this decision.)

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Editorially LGTM. It would be good to check with other implementers, maybe the CORB folks?

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MattMenke2 commented Nov 13, 2018

While I own the MIME sniffer, what the renderer actually does with the information is largely a black box to me. So I'm fine with removing them, but have no clue about the potential fallout.

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GPHemsley commented Aug 28, 2021

(No separate issue, so commenting here.)

Chromium treats "", "unknown/unknown", "application/unknown", and "*/*" as unknown MIME types:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/heads/main/net/base/mime_sniffer.cc

Firefox defines UNKNOWN_CONTENT_TYPE as "application/x-unknown-content-type" and APPLICATION_GUESS_FROM_EXT as "application/x-vnd.mozilla.guess-from-ext":
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/netwerk/mime/nsMimeTypes.h

But also treats "application/octet-stream", "binary/octet-stream", and "application/unknown" as generic content types:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/browser/components/downloads/DownloadsCommon.jsm

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GPHemsley commented Aug 30, 2021

With a payload of <!DOCTYPE HTML :

Scenario Firefox Chrome
unknown/unknown without nosniff Download text/html
unknown/unknown with nosniff Download Download
application/unknown without nosniff Download text/html
application/unknown with nosniff Download Download
*/* without nosniff text/html text/html
*/* with nosniff text/plain text/plain

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GPHemsley commented Sep 6, 2021

Support for application/unknown and unknown/unknown were reported to be exclusive to Chrome as of May 2009. (Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, and Safari 3.1 did not support them.)

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