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Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com

Fri May 29 03:34:04 BST 2020

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On May 29, 2020, at 04:19, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
I previously proposed the filesize for this, and solderpunk rejected that

Well, the thing is, as soon as we open the door for semicolons in what is effectively the content-type header, then... we open the floodgates to extensions. The whole 1024 bytes of them :)

You mentioned it yourself nearly a year ago:

"The MIME type that is returned can have parameters, and these parameters can act as small headers"-- File size issues, Sean Conner, August 18 2019

https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2019/000045.html

What's the current thinking one year on?

-- PA