Kazuhiko Yamamoto =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOzNLXE9CSScbKEI=?=
<kazu(_at_)is(_dot_)aist-nara(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp> writes:
So how about a new MIME field like Content-Transfer-Compression?
As Keith said, this would be an incompatible change. However, consider the
following:
Content-Type: application/gzip
Content-Uncompressed-Type: application/postscript
Where "Content-Uncompressed-Type" is identical in structure to
Content-Type, except that types "multipart" and "message" are
forbidden.
This is fully compatible, and it shouldn't be too difficult to add
intelligent support (just pass the CUT header to the CT header parser
after a gunzip phase). It also recognizes the fact that a receiver
may wish to remove the base64 encoding without removing the
compression.
- Chris