From: Paul Haldane (Paul.Haldane@newcastle.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 03:57:15 CDT
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 jose.kahan@w3.org wrote:
...
> What I do is that in the attachment directory (say attach/num/), I create
> another subdir called .meta. I store attachment att-name in
> attach/num/att-name and its meta information in attach/num/.meta/att-name.
> The meta information is the value of the Content-Type header as specified
> in the MIME header.
Sounds neat. Yes there's the issue of web servers that don't support
this, but as long as we have a option to tell hypermail not to generate
the meta files on servers that don't use them we should be fine. People
who use apache configured to use meta files will be better off than now
and users of other server will be no worse off (same approach as MTRG
(router traffic graphing thing) takes - it optionally produces .meta files
to set expiry times for the graphs it produces).
Paul