[OpenID] Fwd: Content-Type for Key-Value Form response from OP

[Andrew Arnott]

(Forwarding to entire list since I hit Reply instead of Reply All).

Thanks, Martin.  It sounds like application/x-kvf is better than text/kvf
then.  Perhaps we can also be more descriptive then as say
"application/x-openid-kvf"?

Andrew Arnott

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk>
wrote:

> Andrew Arnott wrote:
> > In that case, I move that we adopt text/kvf as the official Content-Type
> > for Key-Value Form encoding response messages.
> >
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Sorry I didn't see your messages until now.
>
> I believe the convention for unregistered MIME types is to prefix the
> subtype part with "x-", giving something like text/x-kvf.
>
> However, since the spec mandates UTF-8 for this message format, it may
> be more appropriate to use an "application/" type; text types generally
> support a "charset" attribute allowing the content to be in an arbitrary
> character encoding, which is not appropriate here.
>
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