From: pelegri (Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart)
To: lpgc
CC: pelegri, hmuller, dac, brown, riggs, sbb, rfield, br
Subject: Mime stuff...
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:24:55 -0800

Larry, thanks for helping with this task! Here is the situation:

[0] The registration body is IANA. One useful URL (thanks, Steve) is
"ftp://venera.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/"
I don' know how responsive they are, so it might be useful to contact
them as soon as you can to see whether we can squeeze this into 1.1
either in code or documentation form :-).


[1] Java class files

We are using "application/java-vm". We are not sure whether this
mime type has been registered with IANA. We would like to
do so. I don't know if you need this, but the magic number is
four bytes: 0xCA 0xFE 0xBA 0xBE.


[2] serialized files (usually ".ser")

We would like to acquire a mime type for these. Roger suggested
application/java-serialized-object. The magic number is the two bytes
0xAC 0xED followed by the version number in two bytes (currently 0x00 0x05).


[3] JAR files (usually ".jar")

jg@netscape says they would really like this ASAP. I don't
know if there are magic nubmers, and I haven't heard, or have
any suggested type strings.


Thanks!
- eduardo