Re: Stream-based MIME Parser

[Joe Cheng]

Finally.. MIME is extensible through "official" mechanisms for sepcifying
"official" new MIME types, make your parser extensible too and you can keep
up to date.
 

OK.  So, let me make sure I have this straight.  There are MIME types 
that are, to the parser, opaque--it doesn't actually need to be aware of 
these types or how to handle them, it just needs to return the content 
to the caller (handling the proper decoding if necessary).  For example, 
application/*, audio/*, video/*, image/*, text/*, etc.

Then there are MIME types that have structural semantics to them, e.g. 
multipart/*, message/rfc822.  The parser DOES need to understand these 
types.

Is that accurate?

And by "new MIME types" you're referring specifically to additions to 
the latter group, that would require the parser to be modified?

-jmc

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