At 5:41 PM 10/26/93 -0700, Ned Freed wrote:
Perhaps in most cases the header parameter will be the same as the inner
header's content type, but I don't necessarily see why this needs to be a
requirement. There may be cases where a given multipart construct can have
different sorts of headers.
One of the suggested benefits of header-set is to allow alternative headers
for data without having to repeat the data. If Ned wants a parameter that
tells him what "sort" of header-set it is, and you specify alternative
headers, THEN what?
multipart/header-set; type=???
multipart/alternative
application/applefile
application/windows-info
image/gif
What's ??? ? "file-with-info" (as distinguished from "pem" or something)?
Is that enough for you, Ned?
Can your implementation solve this problem at all? I know you may want to
turn into macbinary to keep Mac All-In-One happy. But is there a Windows
version of All-In-One? Do you need to turn it into something else for
that? If so, how do you know which transformation to apply?
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