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Article #54Re: pgp headers for MIME
From: Jurgen Botz
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:55
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:55
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In article <C18C4r.6K8@wizzy.com> andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati) writes:
>Has anyone been working on a pgp interface for MIME ?
>[...]
>In correspondence with Tobias Weingartner <weingart@inf.ethz.ch> he
>suggests
>[...]
>TW> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>TW> Content-transfer-encoding: X-PGP-{VERSION}
>TW>
>TW> Where {VERSION} would be: 2.0, 2.1, etc...
No! You should use an application sub-type... that way you're
MIME conformant. If you define a new transfer encoding, the
message is NOT A MIME MESSAGE.
Sigh... why do people always think that standards need to be
improved upon?
--
Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
Northampton, MA, USA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!jbotz From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime,alt.security.pgp Subject: Re: pgp headers for MIME Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:55:08 -0500 Organization: Mount Holyoke College Lines: 20 Sender: news@mtholyoke.edu Message-ID: <1jpcdsINNpp0@slab.mtholyoke.edu> References: <C18C4r.6K8@wizzy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slab.mtholyoke.edu