The MIME registration is a bit screwed up in this respect. "tar" might be OK as a document format (though I believe no one has registered a MIME type for it), but bzip2 is more of what they think of as a "content-transfer-encoding". I've argued in the past to the IETF that they should define additional content-transfer-encodings for gzip and zip and bzip2, but they haven't, because it doesn't really come up in the email application domain.
I'd suggest registering a real MIME type for it, something like "application/vnd.sagemath-spkg". That would allow servers and browsers to agree on what they're passing around. It would also handle the case where it's maybe bzip2 one time and maybe tar the next time. Same for .sws, if that isn't already registered. Bill On Nov 18, 12:12 am, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2011-11-17 22:33, Bill Janssen wrote: > > > Is there a MIME type for .spkg files? > > I guess not, but spkg files are simply bzip2'ed tar files, so if there > is a MIME type for that, you should probably use that. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
