Re: [PATCH] Add MARS shooter.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> Thompson, David writes:
>
>> No, upstream needs to fix their invalid Content-Type header.  We've
>> had this problem a few times, most recently with rubygems.org, and in
>> all cases we've gotten upstream to fix it.  Strict header parsing can
>> seem like an issue at times, but it's really a very good feature that
>> the rest of the world seems to ignore. [0]
>
> So this is less about this package itself but rather this general issue
> of parsing Content-Type headers, which has come up repeatedly...
>
> "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
> others"... when it comes to the web, we should follow the Robustness
> Principle:

I agree with that.  Now, if it turns out that in practice we encounter
few misbehaving servers, as seems to be the case here, then I think it
makes sense to contact their operators and see if they can fix it.

Ludo’.