[PATCH] Output unmodified Content-Type header value for JSON format.

Austin Clements amdragon at MIT.EDU
Fri Nov 18 20:59:57 PST 2011


Quoth Dmitry Kurochkin on Nov 19 at  6:42 am:
> Hi Jamie.
> 
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:58:52 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:45:05 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Before the change, notmuch used g_mime_content_type_to_string(3)
> > > function to output Content-Type header value.  Turns out it outputs
> > > only "type/subtype" part and ignores all parameters.  Also, if there
> > > is no Content-Type header, default "text/plain" value is used.
> > 
> > Hi, Dmitry.  Can you explain under what circumstances you would need the
> > extra content-type parameters?
> 
> Charset is an example of a parameter which you need to render a part
> correctly.

Can notmuch convert to a common charset, given that, otherwise, every
client is going to have to implement this conversion anyway?

(And are there other examples of useful things in the content type?)


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