MIME types for preliminary community review

[Claus Färber]

Chris Lilley <chris at w3.org> schrieb/wrote:
> For the first of those yes as its a file format; for the second, no -
> remember the attempt at application/gzip and then the introduction of
> Content-Encoding. Something which is gzipped should indicate its
> actual media type, and use Content-Encoding to indicate that it is
> gzipped.

What if you don't have a Content-Encoding header, for example if you use  
MIME instead of HTTP?

Claus
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