On Wed, Nov 21 2007, William F Hammond wrote:
> But in .mailcap this would cause mplayer to be spawned for all
> instances of application/octet-stream, which is a catch-all
> content-type for "binary" things of whatever nature.
Yes. But that's what Richard asked. ;-)
> My sense is that this content-type is used when the content-provider
> expects the user to download and save or when the content-provider
> does not know what content-type to use.
More often it happens when using a broken MUA.
Bye, Reiner.
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