Some HTTP questions

Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>

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To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Some HTTP questions
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Tim, I've been going over the HTTP spec
(ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc/http-spec.txt), and have some questions.

What (if any) "Authorization" and "ChargeTo" schemes have been
registered?  Is anyone using these, to your knowledge?

The format of a response is not really clear, from the spec.  What is
"the format of a MIME message"?  Does this mean, "the format of an
RFC-822 message, as amended by RFC 1341"?  Or does this mean, "the MIME
headers `Content-Type' and `Content-Encoding' should appear first,
followed by a blank line, followed by the body of the response"?  Do
binary responses (gif, etc.) need to be BASE64'ed?  (Presumably not.)

Presumably the document ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc/http.txt is now
obsolete?

Is anyone working on an NFS server for HTTP?  That is, a server where
files on the file system would actually be references to HTTP-accessible
objects?

Thanks.

Bill