From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: message/external-body
Date: 20 Dec 2000 19:02:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lmtabpzr.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ey7l4v30dy.fsf@video.uic.vsu.ru>
vvv@vsu.ru writes:
> Hi,
>
> when i downloaded a message/external-body part which had the following
> headers:
>
> Content-Type: message/external-body; access-type=URL;
> URL*0="http://";
> URL*1="www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tomo/";
> URL*2="comp/emacsen/lisp/";
> URL*3="semi/semi-1.14-for-flim-1.14/";
> URL*4="emh-1.14.0.tar.gz"
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="emh-1.14.0.tar.gz";
> type=tar;
> conversions=gzip
>
> i've got a file with the name emh-1.14.0.tar.gz (which appeared as an
> additional mime button), and i saved that part in a file.
>
> but the file appeared as a TAR file, not gzipped.
> (so, the name was misleading)
>
> is this a bug?
I'd say it is a bug on the sender's MUA. It should either have left off
the .gz extensions, or ommitted the conversions field.
-bp
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-21 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-20 9:30 message/external-body vvv
2000-12-20 21:05 ` message/external-body ShengHuo ZHU
2000-12-21 0:02 ` William M. Perry [this message]
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