MIME parameters in Extended Attributes

Fred Drake fdrake at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 19:46:59 PDT 2007


On 8/6/07, Timothy Baldwin <tim.lists at majoroak.f2s.com> wrote:
> The shared mime info spec says that a MIME type may be stored in the
> user.mime_type extended attribute. Does this include any parameters for the
> MIME type?

Failing any statement that says otherwise, I'd expect so.  An
application can then parse the type any way it wants, or leave it
whole (or ignore the whole thing, of course).


  -Fred

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