161627 - type=' text/plain' ignored in a tag

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Garrett Smith]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529
BuildID:    2002052918

<a href='sample.html' type='text/plain'>source of sample</a>

HTML is parsed

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  http://dhtmlkitchen.com/bugzilla/sample.html
2.  click link
3.  page is loaded and parsed.

Actual Results:  page is loaded and parsed.

Expected Results:  page should respect the content type specified in the type
attribute. 

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.1

type = content-type [CI]
This attribute gives an advisory hint as to the content type of the content
available at the link target address. It allows user agents to opt to use a
fallback mechanism rather than fetch the content if they are advised that they
will get content in a content type they do not support.Authors who use this
attribute take responsibility to manage the risk that it may become inconsistent
with the content available at the link target address.For the current list of
registered content types, please consult [MIMETYPES].

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

type is advisory. the HTTP spec says that only in the absense of a Content-Type
header can we override advisory mechanisms. INVALID.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Invalid bugs.

if you don't think the report is invalid, please check to see if it has already
been reported (it might be a duplicate instead). otherwise, make sure that there
are steps (a valid test case) that clearly display the issue as an unexpected
defect.

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