Re: MIME types for preliminary community review

Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> schrieb/wrote:

For the first of those yes as its a file format; for the second, no - remember the attempt at application/gzip and then the introduction of Content-Encoding. Something which is gzipped should indicate its actual media type, and use Content-Encoding to indicate that it is gzipped.

What if you don't have a Content-Encoding header, for example if you use MIME instead of HTTP? Claus -- http://www.faerber.muc.de