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Re:The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome by samuellb on Thursday August 23, 2012 @08:34AM (#4421989)
Doesn't this mean that IE is doing content-type sniffing?
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Re:The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome by rejment on Thursday August 23, 2012 @08:36AM (#4421999)
Yes it does. It always has done.
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Re:The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome by davecardwell on Thursday August 23, 2012 @11:48AM (#4423001)
Yes. You can explicitly turn off this behaviour by sending a “X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff” header for IE8+.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields#Comm...

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