[webkit-dev] Harmonizing content sniffing

[Adam Treat]

Has there been any progress with this effort?  Specifically, I'm wondering if 
there is a bug on bugs.webkit.org that we are using to track this task.

Cheers,
Adam

On Friday 14 November 2008 5:53:56 pm Adam Barth wrote:
> Ok.  I'll file a bug report at http://bugreport.apple.com/ with
> several things that should be easy to change.  In parallel, we can
> investigate moving the sniffing algorithm to WebKit.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> >> One disadvantage of moving the algorithm is that we might make some
> >> unintended changes.
> >
> > Another disadvantage is that any other Mac OS X libraries or applications
> > that rely on the sniffing done by CFNetwork will no longer get the same
> > results as WebKit clients.
> >
> > Also, I don't think we've established yet if we can turn off the sniffing
> > in CFNetwork and keep the other desirable CFNetwork features working.
> > There are a number of closely related features, such as the one that
> > determines the suggested filename for a download.
> >
> > I think the concept of moving the sniffing into WebKit is great if we can
> > execute it successfully. I'm worried that it may be difficult to do that
> > in the Mac OS X version and the Windows version used by Safari.
> >
> >    -- Darin
>
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