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jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+list.ding) writes:

> * 1999-01-13 wmperry@aventail.com (William Perry) list.ding
> | ...The fact that
> | application/x-gzip64 is an abomination is a totally different problem. :)
> 
> What is the proper MIME type for for base64 encoded gzip files ?
> I've also seen plain "application/gzip"

  i assume one would need an appropriate content-transfer-encoding.  Not a
content-type for this.  So you would have:

Content-type: application/x-tar
Content-transfer-encoding: x-base64-gzip

[base64 gobbledygook]

I don't know if such a beast exists or not.  Or just have a content-type of 
application/octet-stream and a content-transfer-encoding of 'base64' and
let the user figure it out.

-Bill P.