Re: Charset labelling (Was: Comments on: "Character Set" Considered Harmful)
Erik van der Poel (erik@netscape.com)
Fri, 28 Apr 95 22:58:31 EDT
>How about defining a new MIME type for filesystem-based documents (or
>perhaps just storing such documents with the MIME headers)? Why is it
>absolutely vital to store the documents as HTML when this is obviously
>insufficient?
>
>One could assume that documents which use the .htm(l) extension use
>ISO-8859-1 (default, same as HTTP), and documents with a .www (or
>whatever) extension have HTTP headers.
A couple of days ago, Bob and I discussed something very similar (if not
exactly the same), only we called it *.mim (for MIME).
This would be great for CD-ROM files (*.MIM), for "normal" local files,
and even for files residing on the server's file system. The server
could peek at the header inside the file if the extension is *.mim (or
*.www), and use those headers in the HTTP protocol.
Erik van der Poel