Re: [syndication] Mime types when serving RSS

[Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>]

Hi

On Thu 25-Apr-2002 at 02:49:49 +0100, Ben Hammersley wrote:
> 
> Was/is there are any concensus? Should there be?

This is the official line:

   Mime Type

   The current mime-type recommendation for an RSS 1.0 document is
   application/xml. However, work is currently being done to register a
   mime-type for RDF (and possibly RSS). The RDF (or preferably RSS)
   mime-type should be used once it has been registered. 

   http://purl.org/rss/1.0/spec

text/xml is better than application/xml if you want Netscape 4 users to
be able to view the file without saving it locally, IE doesn't seem to
care about mime types and AFAIK neither do (most/any?) RSS tools.

Chris

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