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The multipart/choices Content-Type
draft-palme-multipart-choices-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Jacob Palme
Last updated 2001-01-02
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Abstract

This memo specifies that the existing MIME content-type 'multipart/alternative' should be restricted to cases where the alternatives differ in their content-type. When the alternatives differ in other properties than content-type, a new 'multipart/choices' content-type is to be used instead. This is necessary, because the present specification gives extremely bad downgrading for mailers not supporting use of 'multipart/alternative' for other differences than content-type. This memo also specifies a mandatory parameter to multipart/choices. This mandatory parameter will hopefully avoid the same problem occuring again in the future.

Authors

Jacob Palme

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