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Re: A qeuery about GET
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodent of Unusual Size)
Mon Jun 21 13:40:01 1999
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:36:27 -0400
From: Rodent of Unusual Size <Ken.Coar@Golux.Com>
To: Ashish Deshpande <ashish_deshpande@trishul.icil.co.in>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Ashish Deshpande wrote:
>
> i'm trying to write a simple http client.
> can anyone tell me when a GET is sent to the server how are the images embedded in
> html file retrieved? do i have to GET them explicitely?
Yes. The images aren't embedded, just HTML tags that refer to
them. The user-agent must parse the tags and make separate
requests for all of the page components.
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Ken Coar <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/>
Apache Software Foundation <http://www.apache.org/>
"Apache Server for Dummies" <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/ASFD/>
