From kde-core-devel  Sat Apr 06 18:27:39 2002
From: Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 18:27:39 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: mimetypes for zipped files
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=101812015708480

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On Friday 05 April 2002 18:35, David Faure wrote:
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> > what are the mimetypes for zipped files ?
> > Would e.g. text/plain-gzip, text/html-gzip, application/x-troff-gzip =
be
> > ok ?=20
<snip>

God, NO! :-(

> In a way it would be better to have the info that "it's gzip" not in th=
e
> mimetype but somewhere else.

Exactly. Maybe using a Content-Transfer-Encoding-like approach might help=
?
BTW: On ietf-822 there's currently a discussion about this (in the contex=
t of=20
mail, that is). Either we'll get a gzip CTE or a "compression" parameter =
for=20
the CTE header field.

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>
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