<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Not clear before I have my coffee if a separate mime type would be desirable for tile-compressed FITS :-)<div><br></div><div>At any rate, just a suggestion that users should evaluate tile-compression / fpack before using host gzip on FITS files of any type.  Also note the beta support for table compression.</div><div><br></div><div>Obviously if gzipped FITS files do exist (in defiance of all logic), the mime type should accurately capture that fact.</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div>--</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 11, 2013, at 6:36 AM, Arnold Rots <<a href="mailto:arots@cfa.harvard.edu">arots@cfa.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I am not sure the FITSMIME list is still active, so I am sending<div>this also to FITSBITS.</div><div><br></div><div>Yulie Zografou noticed an inconsistency in our Mime types:</div><div><br></div><div style="">
The accepted bintable Mimetype is:</div><div style=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">application/x-fits-bintable     A FITS binary table (single BINTABLE extension)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For image and tar there are such options but not for bintable</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">image/x-fits-gzip                   A GZIP-compressed FITS image</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">application/x-tar-gzip            A GZIP-compressed TAR file</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Reading the IANA and related FITS specs it is </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">is not clear</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(or may be not allowed) whether one can make up something like:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">application/x-fits-bintable-</span><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></u><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">gz</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ip</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="">Why was no gzip version of the bintable Mimetype defined?</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Cheers,</div><div style="">
<br></div><div style="">  - Arnold<br><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Arnold H. Rots                                          Chandra X-ray Science Center<br>Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory                   tel:  +1 617 496 7701<br>60 Garden Street, MS 67                                      fax:  +1 617 495 7356<br>
Cambridge, MA 02138                                         <a href="mailto:arots@cfa.harvard.edu" target="_blank">arots@cfa.harvard.edu</a><br>USA                                                   <a href="http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/" target="_blank">http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/</a><br>
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