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- From: connolly@convex.com (Dan Connolly)
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:18:09 GMT
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- In article <1iqov1INNivb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier) writes:
- >Well, as has been said, MIME is in use in the Gopher community, where it
- >is defined as "a file starting with MIME headers". I have heard suggestions
- >for its use with WAIS, though I think that idea fizzled. It works with
- >Gopher because Gopher already presumes that all text transactions are done
- >in US-ASCII or a superset like ISO-8859-1. Gopher also provides for 8-bit
- >binary data. I don't know which of the two is used by MIME.
-
- "Well, there you go again..."
-
- I suppose I'm beating a dead horse, but ...
-
- The Gopher project equates the gopher type M with the MIME message/rfc822 content-type.
- While the message/rfc822 content type can contain a body of any type, I'd like
- to see the gopher project go a little farther: dispense with the single character
- data type namespace alltogether in favor of the MIME namespace. (i.e. no more I
- for images: put "image/gif" in the gopher listing in stead. But the data stays
- the same: you don't add headers or base64 encode it.) At least formally equate
- the rest of the single-character types with MIME types (excepting the single-character
- types that refer to protocols, like telnet and CSO).
-
- The WAIS project leaders have said they are going to do "the right thing." i.e.
- not just include the message/rfc822 content-type in their type namespace (as "MIME")
- but replace their namespace with the MIME namespace. So no more WAIS "TEXT" type:
- it's "TEXT/PLAIN", and no more "GIF", but rather "IMAGE/GIF" and no more "PS" but
- in stead "application/postscript".
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- Dan
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