designed for transmitting a binary file in an ASCII (text)
format.</p>
- <p>The <cite>MIME RFC</cite> puts it this way:</p>
-
- <blockquote>
- <p>The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a
- modifier to the media-type. When present, its value indicates
- what additional content coding has been applied to the
- resource, and thus what decoding mechanism must be applied in
- order to obtain the media-type referenced by the Content-Type
- header field. The Content-Encoding is primarily used to allow
- a document to be compressed without losing the identity of
- its underlying media type.</p>
+ <p>The <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">HTTP/1.1
+ RFC</a>, section 14.11 puts it this way:</p>
+
+ <blockquote cite="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">
+ <p>The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to
+ the media-type. When present, its value indicates what additional
+ content codings have been applied to the entity-body, and thus what
+ decoding mechanisms must be applied in order to obtain the media-type
+ referenced by the Content-Type header field. Content-Encoding is
+ primarily used to allow a document to be compressed without losing
+ the identity of its underlying media type.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>By using more than one file extension (see <a href="#multipleext">section above about multiple file
designed for transmitting a binary file in an ASCII (text)
format.</p>
- <p>The <cite>MIME RFC</cite> puts it this way:</p>
-
- <blockquote>
- <p>The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a
- modifier to the media-type. When present, its value indicates
- what additional content coding has been applied to the
- resource, and thus what decoding mechanism must be applied in
- order to obtain the media-type referenced by the Content-Type
- header field. The Content-Encoding is primarily used to allow
- a document to be compressed without losing the identity of
- its underlying media type.</p>
+ <p>The <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">HTTP/1.1
+ RFC</a>, section 14.11 puts it this way:</p>
+
+ <blockquote cite="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">
+ <p>The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to
+ the media-type. When present, its value indicates what additional
+ content codings have been applied to the entity-body, and thus what
+ decoding mechanisms must be applied in order to obtain the media-type
+ referenced by the Content-Type header field. Content-Encoding is
+ primarily used to allow a document to be compressed without losing
+ the identity of its underlying media type.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>By using more than one file extension (see <a