Re: Synchronized...

Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>

Mail folder: WWW Talk Oct 93-present
Next message: Roy T. Fielding: "RFC: Multi-Owner Maintenance robot (MOMspider)"
Previous message: Frederick G.M. Roeber: "Re: X Mosaic, FTP and PASV"
In-reply-to: Axel Belinfante: "Re: Synchronized... "

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 11:45:38 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9312061045.AA03141@www3.cern.ch>
To: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
Subject: Re: Synchronized... 
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, www-request@nxoc01.cern.ch
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch


Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>asked on
Sun, 05 Dec 93 16:36:32 +0100

>Some time ago someone, in comp.infosystems.www someone wanted to
>return in one 'message' both a generated image and the generated  
html
>'envelope' that contains it as inline image. Could this be expressed  
as
>well via multipart types? Could external bodyparts map onto URL's?
>If this has been discussed before, are there some pointers?


Check out the HTTP spec -- It has multipart handling in,
subject to negotiation.   This followed from a discussion on
this list. The relevant bit is [hidden in ;-)]

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/Object_Headers.html

The code is not yet added to HTMIME.c in libwww -- volunteers?

Tim BL