[10401] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP header suggestion/request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin J. Dyer)
Fri Nov 8 10:20:00 1996
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 10:17:30 -0500
From: "Kevin J. Dyer" <kjd4951@aries1.draper.com>
In-Reply-To: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
<"Re: HTTP header suggestion/request"@mb2.draper.com> (Nov 8, 8:47am)
To: megazone@livingston.com, kdyer@draper.com, www-talk@w3.org
Cc: koen@win.tue.nl
Reply-To: kdyer@draper.com
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Nov 8, 8:47am, MegaZone wrote:
> Subject: Re: HTTP header suggestion/request
> Once upon a time Kevin J. Dyer shaped the electrons to say...
> > What UAs support this? Or are you supplying a "plug-in" to the UA?
>
> I tested it in Netscape 3.0 on SunOS 4.1.4 so far and it worked fine.
> Lynx 2.5 on IRIX ignored it.
>
> I'll test it on MSIE 3.0 and NS 3.0 on Win95 when I get home.
>
I just ran the test for NS 3.0 on Win95 and it works using octet-stream.
It fails for NS 3.0 on the MAC. I'll try it on NS 3.0 on IRIX a this afternoon.
When I reread 1806, I found an intersting section on page 5.
"The following body part contains a JPEG image that should be displayed
to the user only if the user requests it. If the JPEG is written to a
file, the file sould be named "genome.jpg":
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=genome.jpg
Content-Description: a complete map of the human genome
<jpeg data>"
I ran a test with a GIF image and changed the application/octet-stream to
image/gif. NS 3.0 on Sol 2.5 and Win95 displayed the image instead of
asking to save it. Well they did it 25 percent or so right.
> -MZ
> --
>-- End of excerpt from MegaZone
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