FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Mime Types and Paramaters

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Reading the HTTP RFC today I learnt that MIME types can have some 
> number 
> of colon seperated key value pairs attached.
> 
> e.g. text/plain;charset=us-ascii   or   text/plain;charset=utf8;lang=
> en_AU
> 
> The first means plain text encoded as US-ASCII and the second is 
> plain text in UTF8
> and australian english.
> 
> Does Haiku / Zeta support this? BMime?

You're misinterpreting the specs. It's not the MIME type that can have 
these additions, it's the HTTP content type. It has nothing to do with 
MIME types.

Bye,
   Axel.