[fitsbits] FITS Mime Type for gzipped bintable

[Arnold Rots]

I am not sure the FITSMIME list is still active, so I am sending
this also to FITSBITS.

Yulie Zografou noticed an inconsistency in our Mime types:

The accepted bintable Mimetype is:
application/x-fits-bintable     A FITS binary table (single BINTABLE
extension)

For image and tar there are such options but not for bintable
image/x-fits-gzip                   A GZIP-compressed FITS image
application/x-tar-gzip            A GZIP-compressed TAR file

Reading the IANA and related FITS specs it is is not clear
(or may be not allowed) whether one can make up something like:
application/x-fits-bintable-**gzip


Why was no gzip version of the bintable Mimetype defined?

Cheers,

  - Arnold


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Arnold H. Rots                                          Chandra X-ray
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