Re: mime type of tbz2
On 2005-10-22 11:22:05 +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
> Yes, agreed. Modeled after gzip entries, and unless someone knows
> more official types, what about adding to sample mime.types:
>
> | application/x-bunzip2 bz2
> | application/x-tar-bz2 tbz2 tar.bz2
In /etc/mime.types under Debian:
# Note: Compression schemes like "gzip", "bzip", and "compress" are not
# actually "mime-types". They are "encodings" and hence must _not_ have
# entries in this file to map their extensions. The "mime-type" of an
# encoded file refers to the type of data that has been encoded, not the
# type of encoding.
However, for archives, the compression may be seen as a part of the
archive type, IMHO. Indeed /etc/mime.types already has:
application/x-gtar gtar tgz taz
application/x-tar tar
For tbz2, I'd rather see:
application/x-btar tbz2
I don't know if tar.bz2 should be included or if application/x-tar
would be sufficient (like for tar.gz).
BTW, Mutt doesn't seem to support compression schemes. This would
be really useful in practice.
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