Map Development Area (MDA)
Location:
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internet
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mime
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content-transfer-encoding
| MIME Content-Transfer-Encoding |
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Types:
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Comment:
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describes how the part was encoded/represented for transfer
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purpose:
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backwards-compatibility
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example:
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base64 and quoted-printable -> body is represented using 7-bit ASCII characters
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example:
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7bit, 8bit, and binary -> indicates that the body is not encoded -- message is represented as either 7-bit ASCII, 8-bit ASCII, or as raw binary data
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Comment:
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note that many mail systems still require binary data to be base64- or QP-encoded
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Comment:
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MIME specification defines five distinct transfer encodings
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