Peter Poeml wrote: > I can imagine that it could be useful, because mirror servers (in a > cooperative mirror network) are often delivering stuff with differing > mime types. On the other hand, a metalink client would benefit from it > only if it actually does anything with the downlaoded content, which > might not often be the case. If there is an actual use case, it might > be helpful to judge. Anyone knows where, how and why this was used in > the past?
If a client downloads the file referred by <file>, then it already knows the mime type (Content-Type header in the download), so <mimetype> could only be useful to clients that don't do any actual download, like search engines. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
