Peter Poeml wrote:
> I can imagine that it could be useful, because mirror servers (in a
> cooperative mirror network) are often delivering stuff with differing
> mime types. On the other hand, a metalink client would benefit from it
> only if it actually does anything with the downlaoded content, which
> might not often be the case. If there is an actual use case, it might
> be helpful to judge. Anyone knows where, how and why this was used in
> the past?

If a client downloads the file referred by <file>, then it already knows the
mime type (Content-Type header in the download), so <mimetype> could only
be useful to clients that don't do any actual download, like search
engines.



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