Re: Mime-Version and no Content-Type

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam writes:
> 
> > A friend helping me get mail working properly on a
> > laptop I'm using,  noticed my "MIME" header and commented that this is
> > normally in uppercase as shown in Hrvoje's quotes:
> 
> >  My setup always shows the mime header like so:
> 
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> 
> RFC 822 (section 3.4.7.) explicitly says that case doesn't matter in
> headers tags, and you can do anything you want:
> 
>         When matching any other syntactic unit, case is to be ignored.
>         For  example, the field-names "From", "FROM", "from", and even
>         "FroM" are semantically equal and should all be treated ident-
>         ically.
> 
> Personally, I think that capitalizing each word is the easiest to
> read.  Especially in my own headers.

Me too.

The point mentioned earlier may be some sort of agreed courtesy,
rather than a hard RFC type rule.  Possibly becaue there is some older
software in common  use that only recognizes upper case MIME.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

-- 
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Running Redhat Linux 5.1