Media Type review request for application/dialog-info+xml

[Rohan Mahy]

Hi,

This format is unlikely to be fetched from a web server, but if it is,  
the behavior described for .xml sounds appropriate to me.  Since this  
format is unlikely to be stored permanently in a file system it makes  
sense not to reserve a new 3-character extension.

thanks,
-rohan


On Jan 24, 2005, at 17:39, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Martin Duerst wrote:
>> At 04:30 05/01/25, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>> * Allison Mankin wrote:
>>>> The Transport Area requests a Media Type review for the proposed
>>>> new type application/dialog-info+xml, intended for the IETF tree,  
>>>> and specified
>>>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sipping-dialog- 
>>>> package-05.txt
>>>> (Section 8.1).
>>>
>>> Why does it list .xml as file extension?
>>
>> Is there anything wrong with using a .xml extension? If yes, what?
>
> Well, e.g. RFC 3236 states:
>
> [...]
>   It is not recommended that the ".xml" extension (defined in
>   [XMLMIME]) be used, as web servers may be configured to
>   distribute such content as type "text/xml" or
>   "application/xml".  [XMLMIME] discusses the unreliability of
>   this approach in section 3.  Of course, should the author
>   desire this behaviour, then the ".xml" extension can be used.
> [...]
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