- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 19 Oct 1996 17:23:58 +0100
- To: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com
- Cc: mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu, www-html@w3.org
While outta my mind on rough red wine, I asked: | What's wrong with UNIX magic cookies? --- Nothing is wrong with UNIX magic numbers as an implementation of file typing, except that they are weakly integrated - they don't exist for many kinds of files, there is no registry or namespace allocation convention (actually, there is, or was, though I don't know how widely known it is or who is doing it now that AT&T no longer owns UNIX), there is no way to manipulate them, etc. Good point...sounds like a case for an RFC here. ///Peter
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