Comments on: MIME Type for CSV http://www.shaftek.org/blog/2005/02/02/mime-type-for-csv/ ShafTek.org = SHAFranovich TECHnologies Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:43:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: netwizard http://www.shaftek.org/blog/2005/02/02/mime-type-for-csv/comment-page-1/#comment-129 netwizard Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:41:22 +0000 http://www.shaftek.org/blog/2005/02/02/mime-type-for-csv/#comment-129 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. 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: Chris http://www.shaftek.org/blog/2005/02/02/mime-type-for-csv/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Chris Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:02:22 +0000 http://www.shaftek.org/blog/2005/02/02/mime-type-for-csv/#comment-128 What about application/csv? What about application/csv?

]]> By: Richard Rodger http://www.shaftek.org/blog/2005/02/02/mime-type-for-csv/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Richard Rodger Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:02:24 +0000 http://www.shaftek.org/blog/2005/02/02/mime-type-for-csv/#comment-127 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. 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.

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