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MIME Type for CSV
Posted February 2, 2005 – 8:16 pm by Yakov Shafranovich in Projects, ProgrammingRecently while working with comma separated value (CSV) files, I came across an interesting fact that there is no registered MIME type for this format while there is one for tabbed separated. To correct that, I whipped up an Internet draft (see directory for other file types).
UPDATE: The draft just posted to the IETF’s repository.
UPDATE #2: Version -01 is out.
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3 Responses to “MIME Type for CSV”
Way to go!
There’s far too much hand-waving when it comes to the CSV format and I found the lack of a standard to be a real pain when writing a parser. Glad to see someone addressing this issue.
By Richard Rodger on Feb 3, 2005
What about application/csv?
By Chris on Feb 4, 2005
According to section 4.5 of RFC 2046, application type “is to be used for discrete data which do not fit in any of the other categories, and particularly for data to be processed by some type of application program. This is information which must be processed by an application before it is viewable or usable by a user.”
CSV is obviously not that since it is text, therefore it falls under the text type.
By netwizard on Feb 4, 2005