From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 10:18:26 EDT
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:04, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote in
> news:1019300992.1393.7.camel@roque:
>
> >> http://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/armtemplate.awt > is
> >> served as 'text/plain'.
> >
> > That is more correct than Application/Octet-Stream.
>
> No, 'text/plain' should *never* be used on anything which is
> supposed to be parsed by machines/programs. This has been discussed
> at length on various MIME-related mailing lists.
Maybe, but application/octet-stream is a far worse mime than text/plain.
text/plain is a superset of text/xml, which in turn is a superset of
text/x-abiword, for instance.
If you provide (in lack of another) text/plain as the mime type, at
least the document is viewable in a very straightforward way with your
pager on your text console email client, or even GUI.
If there is something better than text/plain to describe some xml
format, great. But the bare minimum is text/plain, then text/xml.
NEVER application/octet-stream (a java .class would fit nicely here, for
instance).
Hugs, rms
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