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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Pjpeg in /sys/lib/mimetype
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:20:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f2f8d245bf7a3735cc5a5b904742a19@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141117134012.L69Nbq_m%sdaoden@yandex.com>

> The RFC doesn't say a word on case, which i implicitly read as
> case-insensitive (because how could it work otherwise).

The .z and .Z extensions were used originally to distinguish "packed"
and "compressed" files, respectively.  MIME came later and seemingly
could not distinguish between these two cases.  The problem is long
gone, no doubt.

Lucio.


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      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-17 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-14 12:13 arisawa
2014-11-16  0:20 ` arisawa
2014-11-17 13:40   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-11-17 14:20     ` lucio [this message]

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