Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] .egg media type? (was: PyPI upload doesn't support eggs?)

On Jun 27, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

On Jun 27, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Fred Drake wrote:

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On 6/27/05, Ryan Tomayko wrote:

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On an almost related note, what should the MIME content/media type be for serving egg files via HTTP? It may be advantageous to use "application/zip" [1].

Perhaps.

-1. Eggs should be opaque to software that doesn't necessarily know what an egg is.

Yea, "application/zip" would be bad as it would clash with zip handling applications, making it very unlikely that an egg handling application could be provided as the default handler. But what about "application/egg+zip"? If the "+foo" annotation is doable, it would allow egg handling applications to be registered but also allow fallback to zip handling applications when there is no egg handling application available. I don't see the downside.

For a point of reference, Java's jar format is 'application/java- archive'.

I apologize for being cynical but, given Java's history of disregarding/butchering web and internet architecture, I'd be surprised if that was put in place by anyone having experience with internet media types. Media types are like view source/HTML, it's easy to miss the huge body of spec text dedicated to their behavior. I really don't know the history of "application/java-archive" though, so take that as an uninformed, biased, and probably a little unfair jab. Ryan Tomayko rtomayko@gmail.com http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/