Multipart/mixed for many inline images (was Re: Toward Closure on HTML)

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Subject: Multipart/mixed for many inline images (was Re: Toward Closure on HTML)
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Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit writes:
> Could you elaborate? It seems to me that they can. If a link is of the form 
> 
>   http://site/path/blah.html     its an html file
>   http://site/path/blah.tif      its an image, etc.

No, we backed way off from that for HTTP/1.0, and it seems to be
working well.

> All a browser would have to do is detect that the link it is about
> to follow is to an html file, 

Can't be done without at least establishing a connection and doing a
HEAD.  And it's a waste to incur that expense when there are easier
solutions.

Marc