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Re: Binary XML == "spawn of the devil" ?

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• Subject: Re: Binary XML == "spawn of the devil" ?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:23:52 -0400
• In-reply-to: <3F269068.5040200@e...>

robin.berjon@e... (Robin Berjon) writes:
>> I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for - and Len's reply
>> makes me even less certain - but Content-Type header fields
>> definitely take parameters:
>
>Content-Type, yes, Content-Encoding/Accept-Encoding (aka content 
>codings), no:
>
>http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2068/rfc2068

Thanks - that makes it clear.  Seems like an odd omission.  

Has anyone taken this particular challenge up with the IETF?  

(I worry that other people will read it the way I did and start hacking
encoding parameters into Content-Type rather than use Content-Encoding.
Open spaces seem to invite traffic when other spaces are closed.)



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