Oh, gotcha. Thanks for the explanation--I see your point. -Matt
> Sure MIME is mostly used in mail, because that's the most used > messaging system. But it's not limited to mail and could be used in > other protocols. Also Zend_Mail_Message and Zend_Mail_Part should be > based on it, but that's an other story. > > On the other hand the mime-type or content-type is not limited to > MIME and guessing the content-type by searching for magic sequences > is not really about MIME. But I could imagine something like that > could be implemented as Zend_Mime_Magic - that wouldn't change > anything in Zend_Mime, as it isn't necessary, IMHO.