[10391] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP header suggestion/request (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MegaZone)
Fri Nov 8 05:57:57 1996
To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 02:56:30 -0800 (PST)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Once upon a time Koen Holtman shaped the electrons to say...
>There already is an ad-hoc standard for it:
> Content-type: application/octet-stream
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="fname.ext"
>See http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1996q3/0730.html
>and followups for more information.
Thank you very much. I'd done quite a bit of digging and asking around but
never stumbled over this one. I'd just given up and was ready to write a
new proposal.
>If you want to make it into a real standard for HTTP/1.x, you should
>start by writing a small internet-draft.
Is anyone else interested in reviving RFC1806 for incorporation into HTTP/1.1?
<URL:http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1806.txt>
Frankly I've never written an internet-draft and I wouldn't mind working with
someone with some experience the first time.
Thanks again.
-MZ
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