From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
Subject: Re: OK, so how do I *use* MIME?
Date: 14 Jan 1999 11:09:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafsode413v.fsf@ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "14 Jan 1999 00:26:33 +0100"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Well, aren't you kinda asking for double Content-Types, in a way? The
> thing you got (application/x-gzip, or something) can first be
> unpacked, and then the contents of that can be something else (say,
> text/plain or whatever). But there is no framework for doing that in
> MIME, and I think it would be a mistake to try to guess (or "guess")
> what the second-level (or third-level, etc) type of a part is.
Right. But what if people send you application/x-gzip stuff? It
should at least be painlessly possible to gunzip it and save it to
disk.
kai
--
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out there to get me!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-14 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-12 16:34 Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-13 18:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-13 22:39 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-13 23:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-14 10:09 ` Kai.Grossjohann [this message]
1999-01-14 10:26 ` William M. Perry
1999-01-14 16:17 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-14 19:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-14 23:29 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-15 0:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-15 1:22 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-15 15:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-15 2:29 ` lconrad
1999-01-15 15:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-15 9:11 ` Steinar Bang
1999-01-15 15:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-15 18:26 ` Graham Murray
1999-01-15 15:43 ` Andrew Hobson
1999-01-15 16:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-14 0:36 ` William M. Perry
1999-01-14 15:36 ` Jari Aalto+list.ding
1999-01-14 16:01 ` William M. Perry
1999-01-14 16:11 ` Richard Coleman
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