Subject: Re: Mime-types
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 09:31:36 CST
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:09:02AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Tim Allen wrote:
> >You often send abiword files to the list. I notice your mailer always seems
> >to set the mimetype to application/octet-stream. Would it be possible to
> >educate your mailer about abiword documents? And, for that matter, I think
> >we'd probably also need to educate the Apache server at www.abisource.com,
> >so it knows that abiword is a valid mime-type (ie add it to the mime.types
> >config file) and browsing of the mailing list from the archives would work.
> >One minor detail - what is the Abiword mime-type? I guess something like
> >application/x-abiword would be a reasonable stab at it. Or do we want to
> >register it officially, and hence lose the 'x-'? Or even, has someone
> >already registered it?
>
> Me, when I send an Abi file, Kmail sets it to text/html and I change it to
> text/abiword. That makes more sense to me than application, since Abi and HTML
> files are both instances of SGML or XML and consist of printable characters.
>
> On the other hand, the mime type for PostScript is application/postscript.
Well, Abi docs are clearly text, in some sense. However, the x- is
really neccessary, since there is not an official mime type. Is
text/x-abiword legal?
sam th
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