Re: well-formedness error

["MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <EB2M-MRT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:06:28 -0700
Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I generally find it hard to get upset about this, since *if* the body 
> is XML, if the software cheerfully ignores the headers and points an 
> XML parser at it, the encoding will get sorted out and everything will 
> just work.  However, smarter people than I have said that ignoring the 
> Content-type is a potentially rich source of security holes.  Hmm, I 
> wonder if one could adopt a Best Practice along the lines of "respect 
> the Content-type header unless it's text/xml which is obviously a sign 
> of someone who was completely clueless about setting their Content-type 
> header."

I do not agree with your wording, but I propose to use application/xml 
or application/something+xml for Atom and disallow text/xml for it.  

Cheers,

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MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) <EB2M-MRT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>