On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 00:08 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
> I thought there was another more technical reason for avoiding text/...
> - some theory that if it's text, the carrier is allowed to change its
> encoding, whereas if it's application/..., then it isn't.
Yes. A proxy can rewrite text/*, e.g. to change line endings, or, more
insidiously, changing the encoding (and the corresponding MIME header).
Once the encoding is changed, the XML declaration in the file becomes
incorrect...
I don't know how common rewriting proxies are in practice.
Liam
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