dcrocker(_at_)brandenburg(_dot_)com (Dave Crocker) wrote on 31.07.99 in
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At 07:28 AM 7/29/99 , Keith Moore wrote:
We already have a standard for sending compressed data in e-mail.
We have an IANA registered content-type application/zip.
application/zip is not a standard.
Just to beat this one into the ground:
It's also not a compression mechanism.
It does "bagging" of independent obkects, but does not compress the bits.
This turns out not to be the case.
The application/zip format typically compresses the contained objects with
deflate. ("typically" because there are other algorithms of only historic
significance, and also the option not to use compression; but it's been a
long time since I last saw anything except deflate.)
Now, I certainly agree that this is a poor match with MIME, but the reason
is that it uses a different, incompatible mechanism to describe the
contained objects.
MfG Kai