From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: Mime-Version and no Content-Type
Date: 18 Dec 1998 04:41:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigvhjadsl8.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "17 Dec 1998 19:35:24 -0800"
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> >> > Can you explain How your reasoning ran on that again? : )
> >>
> >> Sure, Harry. No problem.
> >>
> >> First off, mime postdates rfc822 so it's not really appropriate
> >> to be quoting rules from that rfc, however correct they might
> >> be.
This makes no sense, given that MIME is explicitly designed to fit
into rfc822.
> >> I don't have full references on this point, although it's quite
> >> well known, but it appears that there are some mime
> >> implementations which parse for the "mime" portion of
> >> "MIME-Version" in upper case only,
I don't consider this "well-known" at all. Never heard of it myself.
> >> | draft-ietf-usefor-article-01
> >> |
> >> | Header-names are case-insensitive. There is a preferred case
> >> | convention, which posters and posting agents SHOULD use:
> >> | each hyphen-separated "word" has its initial letter (if any)
> >> | in uppercase and the rest in lowercase, except that some
> >> | abbreviations have all letters uppercase (e.g. "Message-ID"
> >> | and "MIME-Version").
As I said: aesthetics, pure and simple.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-18 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-16 13:40 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-16 14:04 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-12-16 16:30 ` Steinar Bang
1998-12-16 16:39 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-16 17:44 ` Steinar Bang
1998-12-17 17:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-17 13:27 ` Harry Putnam
1998-12-17 14:04 ` Colin Rafferty
1998-12-17 14:40 ` Harry Putnam
1998-12-17 17:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-18 3:35 ` Harry Putnam
1998-12-18 3:41 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1998-12-17 14:34 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-17 15:44 ` François Pinard
1998-12-19 13:02 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-19 19:12 ` Dale Hagglund
1998-12-19 19:30 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-19 22:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-16 15:03 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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