Re: Content-Type of GIF

Well,
It is difficult say exactly what caused the system to use
application/binary.

My own request to www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it has image/gif

So, I would like to have a copy of your request to the www4mail server.
So I can try to recreate the state exactly...

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Dietmar P. Schindler wrote:

> Dear Clement,
> 
> my problem with the extra CR/LF in a GIF file was indeed due to the
> inappropriate automatic generation of the tsource in my request.
> 
> When I requested the image without any command keyword, just the URL,
> I received the correct image data. But now there's another problem.
> The attachment starts with the following lines:
> 
> Content-Type: application/binary; name="winner_mitmach.gif"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="winner_mitmach.gif"
> Content-Description:  GIF image data, version 89a, 460 x 57,
> 
> Although the Content-Description tells that it's a GIF image, this isn't
> the case with the Content-Type. The "application/binary" causes my
> browser to not display the image, as it should, but to ask me as what
> file I wished to save it. How comes that the Content-Type isn't right?
> 
> Best regards
> Dietmar
>