This evening I find myself working with mod_mime once again, and it
seems to me that the concept of Encoding (a la AddEncoding and
RemoveEncoding) is rather assumed, but does not appear to be actually
explained anywhere.
Question 1: Does the following seem to be a reasonable explanation of
what "encoding" means?
Question 2: Should this go into the mod_mime docs, or is there
somewhere else where this would fit better?
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A file of a particular MIME type can additionally be encoded a
particular way to simplify transmission over the Internet. While this
usually will refer to compression, it can also refer to encryption, or
to an encoding such as UUencoding, which is designed for transmitting
a binary file in an ASCII (text) format.
By using more than one file extension (see Section about multiple file
extensions - link here), you can indicate that a file is of a particular
<em>type</em>, and also has a particular <em>encoding</em>.
For example, you may have a file which is a Microsoft Word document,
which is pkzipped to reduce its size. If the .doc extension is
associated with the Microsoft Word file type, and the .zip
extension is associated with the pkzip file encoding, then the file
Resume.doc.zip would be known to be a pkzipp'ed Word document.
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Or something along those lines.
Perhaps this could go after the discussion of multi-extension files.
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Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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York (not the same, though it might appear so)
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