Re: MIME variables

[Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>]

Hi,

>>>>> On 06 Jul 1999 23:41:34 +0200
>>>>> davidk@lysator.liu.se (David Kågedal) said:

 David> Looking at RFC 2045, I see tht the BNF grammar allows subtypes
 David> of the x-* variety. Scanning quickly through the document, I
 David> see no other restrictions.

So it's not forbidden.

 David> RFC 2046 has the following to say about text/*:

 2046> (1) text -- textual information. The subtype "plain" in
 2046> particular indicates plain text containing no formatting
 2046> commands or directives of any sort. Plain text is intended to
 2046> be displayed "as-is". No special software is required to get
 2046> the full meaning of the text, aside from support for the
 2046> indicated character set.

This would imply text/plain, though.

text/x-patch is in all ways better than any application/foo-bar, because:

 2046> Unrecognized subtypes of "text" should be treated as subtype
 2046> "plain" as long as the MIME implementation knows how to handle
 2046> the charset.

I still think text/x-patch is better, since it would make it so easy
to have a different default action for patches. And they are
differently formated than plain text after all ...

	Robbe

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