From: iMeowbot <iMeowbot@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Ist multipart/mixed really correct?
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:36:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iMeowbot-E7528C.14364224082003@quimby.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vfsnx75t.fsf@hamster.pflaesterer.de>
In article <m3vfsnx75t.fsf@hamster.pflaesterer.de>,
sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflasterer) wrote:
> from a discussion in another newsgroup about the fact that Gnus under
> special circumstances does create multipart postings we thought about
> the correct value for the mime header.
Are you referring to cases when it mixes character sets?
> Gnus declares the posting as multipart/mixed but according to rfc 2046
> multipart/parallel seems to be the correct alternative. WDYT?
multipart/parallel is an odd duck. "In particular, in a parallel
entity, the order of body parts is not significant." [RFC2046: 5.1.6]
Perhaps it might be useful for some kind of multimedia presentation, but
such things tend to be bundled into a single entity or get triggered at
a higher level like a markup language.
multipart/mixed explicitly preserves order, so it's usually what you
want.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-24 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-24 18:09 Karl Pflästerer
2003-08-24 18:36 ` iMeowbot [this message]
2003-08-24 19:32 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-24 19:58 ` Karl Pflästerer
2003-08-24 20:38 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-24 21:51 ` Karl Pflästerer
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