[gopher] Support for MIME type

[Wolfgang Faust]

Does anybody know of a good library for parsing MIME files in Java? I was
trying to find one for another project also, but all I can find is ad-hoc
solutions based on regular expressions, etc.

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Damien Carol <damien.carol at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everybody !
>
> I read the RFC of gopher 1.0 protocol and I can say that MIME is already
> possible.
>
> Read that :
> 1) MIME file is '0' type item
> 2) all clients are compatible they can get '0' type files
>
> The file get is something like that :
>
> *MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=frontier
>
> This is a message with multiple parts in MIME format.
> --frontier
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> This is the body of the message.
> --frontier
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> PGh0bWw+CiAgPGhlYWQ+CiAgPC9oZWFkPgogIDxib2R5PgogICAgPHA+VGhpcyBpcyB0aGUg
> Ym9keSBvZiB0aGUgbWVzc2FnZS48L3A+CiAgPC9ib2R5Pgo8L2h0bWw+Cg=
> --frontier--*
>
>
> Clients can easily manage data because many lib exists to read MIME.
>
> The only thing to do is to add feature to client that read the first line
> of '0' type item.
> If this line starts with "*MIME-Version:* " , then it's a mime encoded
> file and client can offer to extract file or something else.
>
> It's very very simple to manage mime type this way.
>
> I will implements it in my client.
>
> Give me few days to show you that possible and VERY simple to do without
> redefine another RFC or break RFC 1436.
>
> Regards,
> ps: your opinions are welcome.
> --
> Damien CAROL
> gopher://dams.zapto.org/1/
>
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