RE: [phpesp-dev] Re: Re: Export Download

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

-- Quoting RFC 2046 --
4.1.4. Unrecognized Subtypes

Unrecognized subtypes of "text" should be treated as
subtype "plain" as long as the MIME implementation knows
how to handle the charset. Unrecognized subtypes which also
specify an unrecognized charset should be treated as
"application/octet-stream".
-- End Quote --

The "official" list of types is at:
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types
and the closest type is "text/tab-separated-values".
Perhaps we should use: "text/comma-separated-values".
It works fine with Netscape 4.79 (linux) and Mozilla
(linux).

Plenty of people use the "application/x-foo" type for
unregistered types... (pdf, gzip, etc)

-James

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Kon Angelopoulos wrote:

> I totally agree
> I just don't think application/x-csv is a valid type
>
> Kon
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Gregg [mailto:gr...@mu...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:32 AM
> > To: Kon Angelopoulos; php...@li...
> > Subject: RE: [phpesp-dev] Re: Re: Export Download
> >
> >
> > But what if I'm not importing into Excel?  I would prefer a more generic
> > mime type.  Unless of course "application/x-csv" is totally wrong.
> >
> > --On Wednesday, March 27, 2002 09:25:18 AM +1100 Kon Angelopoulos
> > <an...@cp...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > >     the prefered mime type for excel is: application/vnd.ms-excel
> > >
> > > Kon
> >
> >
> >
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