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Re: [Nmh-workers] mhbuild Content-Disposition header
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David Levine |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] mhbuild Content-Disposition header |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:32:55 -0500 |
> My feeling is that a delimited string might not be appropriate for this
> because content-disposition has an internal grammar, unlike comments,
> ids, and descriptions.
>
> Perhaps something like what mhbuild does with Content-Description in
> plaintext is appropriate, i.e. if a Content-Disposition line follows
> immediately after a directive it is treated as a header for that MIME
> entity. In fact, what might be even clearer is if the Content-Disposition
> line is escaped with a #, because then if it's divorced from a directive
> mhbuild will treat it as an error. In fact, this might be a way to
> do all MIME extension fields. The grammar then becomes
>
> directive ::= "#" type "/" subtype
> 0*(";" attribute "=" value)
> [ "(" comment ")" ]
> [ "<" id ">" ]
> [ "[" description "]" ]
> [ filename ]
> EOL
> [ "#" extension-field ]
>
> where extension-field just can't look like a directive.
Like this?
extension-field ::= "Content-" fieldname ":"
attribute [ "=" value ]
0*(";" attribute [ "=" value ])
#application/pdf; <>[ Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) v1.2 ] /tmp/foo.pdf
#Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo.pdf"
David