Re: [ietf-types] Registration for text/event-stream

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 22 August 2012 08:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-types] Registration for text/event-stream
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On 2012-08-07 13:45, Michael[tm] Smith wrote:
> This is a request to register the text/event-stream media type by reference
> to the Server-Sent Events specification:
>
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/#text-event-stream
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Type name:
>    text
>
> Subtype name:
>    event-stream
>
> Required parameters:
>    No parameters
>
> Optional parameters:
>    charset
>      The charset parameter may be provided. The parameter's value must be
>      "utf-8". This parameter serves no purpose; it is only allowed for
>      compatibility with legacy servers.
> ...


I note that this one and text/cache-manifest are different with respect 
to charset; is there a good reason for this?

Best regards, Julian