[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: mimetypes for zipped files
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2002-04-06 18:27:39
[Download RAW message or body]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

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

God, NO! :-(

> In a way it would be better to have the info that "it's gzip" not in the
> 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 context of 
mail, that is). Either we'll get a gzip CTE or a "compression" parameter for 
the CTE header field.

Marc

- -- 
Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQE8rz4c3oWD+L2/6DgRAsnYAJ4huKhuOiO0ymtgBueBLdprD96LWQCeKL2e
C5oWJgH6hLOwoMgQQ5WC0E4=
=Z89b
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]