text/download MIME type?

[Tony Barry]

At 1:52AM 24/8/97, Genny Engel wrote:

>Obviously, there would be security implications (config.sys you
>wouldn't want to download).

A lot of heavy library users are unix users and some even MacOS so this is
not a worry to them.


>Are we missing some obvious way to allow downloads without requiring a
>special MIME type and without requiring our users to negotiate the dialog
>boxes?  If not, I'd like input from others who would support a new
>text/download MIME type.

The purpose of MIME is to tell the machine at the client end how to handle
the file.  If its a machine in the library you control in so you set it up
to handle what you think is reasonable.  If its not a library machine you
send files in a format which you think most people can handle and tell them
how to set up their MIME mappings.

If you can't do that send in TEXT/PLAIN.

Tony

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