Re: MIME type for libpcap-format capture files

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

Phil Vandry wrote:
> Hello tcpdump-workers,
>
> I noticed that there does not seem to be any MIME type defined for
> libpcap-format packet capture files according to the list of types
> maintained by IANA:
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
>
> I couldn't find any well-known but unofficial MIME type either. It
> seems there is no concensus on what the MIME type of these files
> should be.

Debian and Ubuntu have the following entry in /etc/mime.types:

application/cap                                 cap pcap

I prefer "application/x-libpcap-capture" since it's more descriptive. Would it
make sense to have an "application/x-libpcap-ng-capture" type for Pcap-NG/NTAR
as well?


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