On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:08:07PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> Oleg> Sorry, it is for web. So it seems you need
> Oleg> Content-Type: application/x-gzip
>
> Alas, then I lose the notion that the file is actually text/csv. For
> example, how would Outlook or Thunderbird know to open such a file in Excel
> or OpenOffice Calc?
I think it unzips and then guesses the filetype of the unzipped file.
Guessing is a widely deploying trick in software, alas.
Web headers are better in this regard as there are separate
Content-Type and Content-Encoding headers. In email, there is a
Content-Transfer-Encoding header but it has a different meaning - it is
either 8bit, or base64, or quoted-printable - it's the transfer encoding
*after* the file has been (g)zipped.
Oleg.
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Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [email protected]
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