On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:08:07PM -0500, s...@pobox.com 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. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ p...@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com