From: "Rich Bowen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:09 PM
> 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? > > ----------------------------------------- > > 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>, has a particular <em>encoding</em>[,] ... or is presented in a particular <em>language</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. > > =================================================== > > Or something along those lines. sounds right, and it certainly belongs in the mod_mime docs, if not _also_ elsewhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
