Russ Allbery wrote:
The gzip+base64 situation is a complicated one, and I'm not sure the
right way of handling it.
Recursive encoding of an entity. Self-defeating but there you have it.
Archives (miniature file systems) are a more complex issue that I think
MIME will likely have to punt on and just assign content types to,
because you can't really do anything with them other than bring up a
file system browser that can launch applications on individual contents.
Yeah, and application/tar (or an equivalent) is probably the best way to
do that in the layers here
Agree with everything else Russ said
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