Subj : newsutil.js - content-type and binary usenet groups.
To   : DOVE-Net.Synchronet_JavaScript
From : Ash-Fox
Date : Mon Nov 19 2007 01:00 pm

Greetings,

I've noticed that Synchronet's NNTP server has 'weird' issues when mirroring
binary groups. Upon further investigation I found that the 'default'
content-type which was being inserted by newsutil.js was causing binary
attachments in the messages to appear as text.

writeln("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437");

If I comment this line out, news readers suddenly don't have a issue
figuring out there is a attachment in the message. I know this line is
important as it assumes the messages are in the old IBM437 charset which is
more compatible with BBS messages.

I have read through RFC 2049 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2049.txt) and try
as might. No matter what content-type I specified, the messages did not
display correctly.

For this reason I'm trying to figure out a workaround that would work. Such
as, somehow marking the messages that newslink imports
as 'non-charsettable' or such. Unfortunately this isn't going too well and
wondered if anyone had any ideas on this issue.

~Ash-Fox

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