Just to answer an old one:
On 3/11/00 at 12:34 PM -0800, Dan Kohn wrote:
I appreciate Pete's concern here, and agree that in an ideal world,
this could be handled under Content-Disposition or some new sort of
Content-Structure header. But my (perhaps mistaken) belief is that
most dispatching tools out there work off of MIME type, and do not
necessarily have access to arbitrary Content- headers.
This is true for legacy dispatching tools which don't look at other
MIME headers, but in those cases, they have an easy solution:
1. Map application/iotp to an IOTP application.
2. Map application/iotp to an XML application.
If you are going to *modify* a dispatching tool to parse subtypes, I
don't see why you can't modify it to grab a different Content-* field
or a parameter on the Content-Type line.
The point is that "-xml" has demonstratable benefit to a significant subset
of the community, while Pete and Keith have complained about the lack of
elegance of the solution.
It's not just elegance; I believe both Keith and I are worried about
mucking up the works down the road.
pr
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