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		mkagenius on Aug 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This JPEG is also a webpage Some browsers might try to sniff the mime type, so an additional header would help : "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff"[1] 1. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2008/09/02/ie8-security-...

michaelmior on Aug 10, 2016 [–]

Thanks! I remembered something like that existing but I couldn't remember the header name :)

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