Re: warning to information providers re HTTP/1.0

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 11:42:42 +1200
From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
Message-id: <199308302342.AA27591@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: warning to information providers re HTTP/1.0
In-reply-to: Marc Andreessen's message <9308300353.AA05624@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
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Marc Andreessen writes:

> HTTP/1.0 clients will not look at file extensions when communicating
> with HTTP/1.0 servers -- the MIME type returned by the server will be
> considered the definitive type.

Anyone want to write code that uses a `file' like database to work out
the type of the file, so the server can correctly identify file types
without needing to look at their extension?

Nat