hansen(_at_)pegasus(_dot_)att(_dot_)com writes:
RFC 1049 is not the only other place which has defined content-type headers.
Please give an example of a non-MIME content-type header which
conforms to the MIME grammar.
< None of my MIME parsers look at MIME-Version. They don't break on such
< messages--such messages get handled as "text/plain; charset=us-ascii".
They will certainly sure break on messages which contain non-ascii
characters, whether it be binary or just non-ASCII text.
They would certainly sure break on the same messages were they to
check for the existence of MIME-Version. Those messages don't conform
to 822 and they don't conform to MIME.
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