Re: Some HTTP questions

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 17:00:50 MET DST
From: timbl (Tim Berners-Lee)
Message-id: <9303291500.AA09613@ nxoc01.cern.ch >
To: janssen@parc.xerox.com, timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Some HTTP questions
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch

Thanks for your comments.  By "MIME message" it means an RCC-822
message as enhanced by RFC1341, but with of ocurse the possibility of 8 bit
transmission. Something which we may want to add for this is a length
header field which MIME only allows on external, not internal, body parts.
We should sheck out the STMP 8 bit extensions which I am not sufficiently
knowledgable about.

No, base64 encodeing will not be necessary.  We have to decide
which MIME features may be sent without any permission from the client
but I imagine that all MIME encodings should be understood, but
only text/plain and text/html are required to be understood a priori.

No, I don't know of any Alex-style NFS server for http: space.

Tim BL