Re: HTML+ Addition

Aleksandar Totic <totic@milton.cs.uiuc.edu>

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From: Aleksandar Totic <totic@milton.cs.uiuc.edu>
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Subject: Re: HTML+ Addition
To: totic@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Aleksandar Totic)
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 93 13:26:55 CDT
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In-reply-to: <9310031725.AA31101@stat1.cc.ukans.edu>; from "Lou Montulli" at Oct 3, 93 12:25 pm
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> I think the best way to solve this problem is not to package all of
> the images into one file so that a single get can receive all the
> images.  A good solution would be to extend HTTP so that multiple
> gets can be done with a single connection.  That would give the
> same effect as imgpkg but wouln't entail all of the extra overhead
> of packing and unpacking.
> (This was Marc's idea first, I'm just copying him :)

Sounds like a job for multipart mime messages.

Aleks
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Aleksandar Totic                                           atotic@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Software Development Group      National Center for Supercomputing Applications