[gopher] You think MIME types is the killer feature ? LOLz

[Wolfgang Faust]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt>wrote:

> The RFC could then say:
>
>   Specific formats not listed above [table of "official" item types]
>   should be served under generic selectors, either '9', the selector
>   for binary items, or one of the more specific general-purpose binary
>   selectors 'I' (image), ';' (video) or 'd' (document).
>
>   Formats that already have a specific selector listed above should not
>   be served under any of the generic selectors.
>
What about text-based formats (eg. XML)? Should they be served with 9
(because they're not listed) or 0 (because they're text-based)?

>
> And Cameron's interesting mime/type field could then be used (at least?)
> for 9, I, ; and d, even if not included in the standard.

The idea of having a separate mime-type field is an interesting idea, but I
don't think I'd encourage it.

-- 
01010111 01101111 01101100 01100110
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/gopher-project/attachments/20120510/b6823781/attachment.html>