re: Questions and comments

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 09:44:42 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9211260844.AA01192@www3.cern.ch>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: re: Questions and comments
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch

> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 92 19:43:50 -0500
> From: Thomas A. Fine <fine@cis.ohio-state.edu>


>  Yes, MIME would be good.  But would you make WWW pass
>  around MIME documents only, with HTML being one of the
>  Content-Types,

Yes, this way.  I am no great fan of the MIME wrappers
(they are so mail-oriented and human-readable!) but
I am so strongly in favor of merging related technlogies that
I feel MIME should do that, just as SGML should do the
mark-up.  So in HTTP2, a document will be returned as
a MIME message. That is one reason for getting
text/html registerd as a MIME format now.

>  or would you have http handle several
>  different doc types, including both MIME and HTML?

That's too many wheels within wheels.

>       tom

Tim