Re: LANG: Binary Format Final?

Brian Behlendorf (brian@wired.com)
Sat, 11 Mar 1995 13:51:28 -0800 (PST)

On Sat, 11 Mar 1995, 869683 Gillespie Brandon James wrote:
> < The MIME type could well be world/compressed-vrml.
>
> Although compressed-vrml is correct, it may also be readilly confused with
> unix compress. It is being somewhat nitpicky, but it could be a cause for
> confusion... (perhaps "world/gzipped-vrml"? or just don't bother with the
> confusion and stick to world/compressed-vrml?).

I don't think there's a need for a separate content-type - web servers
will deliver the content with the HTTP headers:

Content-type: world/vrml
Content-encoding: gzip

If you're building a VRML browser which will use HTTP, you can check out the
semantics behind this at the newly-released HTTP draft spec,
<URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-v10-spec-00.txt>,
particularly sections 7.1 and 8.4. Most servers support Content-encoding, as
far as I'm aware.

Brian

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