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Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Fri May 29 03:49:38 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Petite Abeille once stated:

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?

I still feel the same way, and I don't have an issue with this. We'llhave to see what solderpunk thinks of this.

-spc