RE: Media types

Graham Klyne <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.xml-mime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 07:22 PM 1/17/02 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> > > At what point does it make sense to move beyond MIME?
> > >
> >
> > Is it MIME or just the singular Content-Type that is a problem?
>
>Singular content-type.  I don't think the rest of MIME (except some
>encoding issues) causes much trouble.

Well, we now have ways to express other (non-primary) content types.

E.g., per RFC 2912, RFC 2913, ...

   Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="break"
   Content-features:
     (& (Type="text/plain") (Type="image/jpeg") (Type="audio/wav") )

#g



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