Re: patch = text/*

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.08.17 11:54:25 +0100 Brian Stafford wrote:
> On Fri, 17 August 10:57 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > 
> > Could people posting diffs as MIME attachments use a text/ type ? there is
> > nothing more annoying than a application/octet-stream patch that can't be
> > viewed inline.
> > 
> > for balsa users :) is simply a mather of creating a text/patch or somesuch
> > type on control center associated with whatever extension you use
> 
> Whoa!  You can't just make up MIME types!  You need to follow the MIME type
> registration rules in RFC 2048.  In short, top level MIME types should be
> one
> of "text", "image", "application",  "audio" or "video".  Subtypes must
> be a value registered with IANA or a private extension token which starts
> with "x-" or "x.".
> 
> So the patch should be of type "text/x-patch".  Actually

humm .. right. that's actually what i have, i forgot about the x- sorry :)
what i meant was text/x-patch, text/x-diff, text/x-unifiedtextdiff whatever
as long as it's *text/*

> "application/x-patch"
> is more in the spirit of RFC 2046 if less convenient.
> 

application/... would be a nuissance as balsa would want to run through 
patch ;)

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