[Info-vax] fixing a saveset's attributes: attachment, not ftp

Jan-Erik Soderholm jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Mon Jun 22 05:02:29 EDT 2015


JF Mezei skrev den 2015-06-22 05:02:
> On 15-06-21 18:22, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>
>>     Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
>
> Pure Evil :-)  This is Microsoft's content type for any/all its
> proprietary file formats :-(

No, it is not. It is the standard marking for any MIME files
where the correct Content-type is not known. It has nothing
to do with Microsoft as such, *any* file with an unknown
"type" might and up as "octet-stream". And it is defined
in the MIME RFC number 2046.

Look up "octet-stream" here: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt





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