[fitsmime] Thoughts on FITS MIME types.

[William Pence]

Steve Allen wrote:
> 
> On Fri 2002-12-13T16:40:30 -0500, William Pence hath writ:
> > to think image/fits should only be applied to 2-dimensional images,  since
> > there is a big step up in complexity (possibly requiring user interactions),
> > to deal with display of 3-D data cubes.
> 
> But what about
> 
> NAXIS   = 4
> NAXIS1  = 1024
> NAXIS2  = 1024
> NAXIS3  = 1
> NAXIS4  = 1
> 
> ?
> 
> This is the same bone of confusion that brought WCSAXES into the WCS
> papers.
> 
> This is really a 2-d image, and to be unable to display it is to
> deprive a FITS audience from viewing many files that conform to
> suggestions in the original FITS paper.

Yes, I would agree that this is really a 2-d image and could be
appropriately given a mime type of image/fits.

Bill