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Re: File Types
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Troth)
Sat Jul 15 19:48:38 1995
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 95 18:34:47 CDT
From: Rick Troth <TROTH@ua1vm.ua.edu>
To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@www10.w3.org
I've been thinking on a format for an extension<-->type
map file which would include canonicalization. Something like
.gif image/gif binary
This is primarily a server concern. Clients might can usually
consult a mailcap file. Should the two be rolled together?
Also, notice the problem of canonicalization where it can be
hard to determine (sometimes) from the MIME type, as with PGP:
.pgp application/pgp binary
.asc application/pgp text
Thoughts?
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Rick Troth <troth@ua1vm.ua.edu>, Houston, Texas, USA
http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~troth/
