[30813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Thu Aug 31 12:35:17 2000
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:29:58 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
Cc: Alex Kamantauskas <alexk@tugger.net>,
Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20000831122958.A24131@noc.untraceable.net>
Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
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>> >> the mime type is made up, usually based on the file's extension, which
>> >> is, of course, passed along with the contents of the file when you
>> >> transfer it. it's no extra information in this context.
>> >
>> > What's a file extension?
>>
>> it's the last alphanumeric token in a string delimited by dots.
>
>And it doesn't exist anywhere except Windows.
...which is, of course, why every web server under the sun uses them.
:)
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