Registration of MIME media type application/vnd.php.serialized

[Martin Duerst]

Hello Mario,

Just one comment:

At 06:32 04/08/24 +0200, Mario Salzer wrote:
>This vendor tree MIME type registration application discusses the data
>format emitted by PHPs "serialize()". It is no longer in use only within
>there; some independent implementations exist (evtl. becoming an exchange
>format).

>    Encoding considerations: BINARY
>
>       As per current use, contents assigned this MIME Type should be
>       considered to be in the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character set, so
>       that they also may contain arbitrary non-printable characters,
>       binary octets.
>
>       Transport channels not capable of handling raw 8 bit without data
>       corruption SHOULD therefore apply a Transfer-Encoding of "base64"
>       or something similar.

Some thought-provoking (hopefully) questions:

What are 'arbitrary non-printable characters, binary octets'?
Does iso-8859-1 allow the encoding of arbitrary non-printable
characters? Does iso-8859-1 encode binary octets? Is it possible
in this format to serialize data that is another encoding than
iso-8859-1?

My advice: Please remove any mention of iso-8859-1 from this
            draft, it doesn't belong here.


Regards,    Martin.