mimetypes for zipped files
Nicolas Goutte
nicog at snafu.de
Sat Apr 6 22:49:46 BST 2002
To be exact: files of the mime type application/abiword can also be gzipped
(*.abw.gz or *.zabw)
However, there are *not* recognised as application/gzip
I do not mind if somebody wants to change it, as long as I can change KWord's
AbiWord filter accordingly.
Please CC me if you answer. Thank you in advance!
Have a nice day/evening/night!
--- Original Message ---
Subject: Re: mimetypes for zipped files
From: aleXXX <alexander.neundorf at gmx.net>
Date: 2002-04-06 21:32:38
On Saturday 06 April 2002 20:27, Marc Mutz wrote:
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> On Friday 05 April 2002 18:35, David Faure wrote:
> <snip>
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> > > what are the mimetypes for zipped files ?
> > > Would e.g. text/plain-gzip, text/html-gzip, application/x-troff-gzip be
> > > ok ?
>
> <snip>
>
> God, NO! :-(
>
> > In a way it would be better to have the info that "it's gzip" not in the
> > mimetype but somewhere else.
>
> Exactly. Maybe using a Content-Transfer-Encoding-like approach might help?
> BTW: On ietf-822 there's currently a discussion about this (in the context
> of mail, that is). Either we'll get a gzip CTE or a "compression" parameter
> for the CTE header field.
>
> Marc
Can you please explain a bit more, I dont understand.
Currently we recognize anything which is gzipped as application/gzip, e.g.
gzipped man pages or gzipped text files. This basically is one of the few
things why I still have to use mc from time to time, since mc is able to
unzip and display gzipped text files on the fly.
I have it working here, konqy recognizes application/troff-gzip and loads the
corresponding troff part, which unzips the file correctly.
How should this work instead ?
Bye
Alex
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