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Re: [apps-discuss] Review of draft-levine-application-gzip-01.txt

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 14 April 2012 14:18 UTC

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:17:41 -0000
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>And, of course, there is the separate issue that caused us to
>reject various "zip" and related types years ago -- it is
>basically a content-transfer-encoding (even if it also used
>locally) and not a content/media type.

You're right, but these days you could make much the same argument
about application/pdf.  (Text? Images? Encrypted?  Forms to fill in?
Active content?  Whatever else they've addred to PDF lately?)

In view of Ned's comments, I'm inclined to leave it as
application/gzip.

R's,
John

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