Another solution would be to store the Content-type along with the attachment in Apache .asis format. The .asis format is really kinda nice - I've been playing with animated PNG files by cat'ing several PNG "frames" into a single .asis file with appropriate Content-type between each frame. A person can even combine multiple attachments into a single file this way.
> One of the problems with the MIME attachments is how to make the
> web server send back their content type.
> One solution could be to add a file extension, but that extension is
> server dependent.
> Another solution is to use meta-data to store the Content-Type header
> associated with each MIME attachment.
Glen_Stewart_at_associate.com Received on Thu 02 Sep 1999 12:16:32 AM GMT
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