>From david at aminal.com
>On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:06:44PM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote:
>> Content-Type is how the client decides which viewer to pass the data on to.
>> Clients are unlikely to do anything at all with things like "Description" 
or
>> "Publisher" or "Title".  This is the sort of thing that would be useful
>> *before* you download the CHK, like in an index or something, but putting 
it
>> into the CHK itself means you have to download the whole file to get the
>> subject (for example).

>I don't have the ability to decode mpegs, it would be nice to know if 
something
>is an mpeg before fetching the whole bloody file.

I suppose a redundant content-type tag in whatever indexing/searching system 
you are using would be useful, and harmless enough.  But I don't see the 

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