Re: Registration of MIME media type application/vnd.php.serialized

From:	Martin Duerst	Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:15:16 +0000
Subject:	Re: Registration of MIME media type application/vnd.php.serialized
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Hello Mario, Just one comment: At 06:32 04/08/24 +0200, Mario Salzer wrote:

This vendor tree MIME type registration application discusses the data format emitted by PHPs "serialize()". It is no longer in use only within there; some independent implementations exist (evtl. becoming an exchange format).

Encoding considerations: BINARY

      As per current use, contents assigned this MIME Type should be
      considered to be in the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character set, so
      that they also may contain arbitrary non-printable characters,
      binary octets.

      Transport channels not capable of handling raw 8 bit without data
      corruption SHOULD therefore apply a Transfer-Encoding of "base64"
      or something similar.

Some thought-provoking (hopefully) questions: What are 'arbitrary non-printable characters, binary octets'? Does iso-8859-1 allow the encoding of arbitrary non-printable characters? Does iso-8859-1 encode binary octets? Is it possible in this format to serialize data that is another encoding than iso-8859-1? My advice: Please remove any mention of iso-8859-1 from this

           draft, it doesn't belong here.

Regards,    Martin.