<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>
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