[8994] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: can multi-content-type in a message?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Tue Aug 22 01:26:12 1995
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 22:15:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
To: wqf@uestc.edu.cn
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <9508220247.AA02554@uestc3.uestc.edu.cn>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Tue, 22 Aug 1995 wqf@uestc.edu.cn wrote:
> I want to program a cgi to transfer a piece of audio together with a text/html
> back to the browser. The audio can be a explanation to the file or even a some
> music. I need it because the file is in English and the audio explanation is
> in Chinese, and the audio should be immediately played without a user to click.
>
> So, can I transfer different types of contents in a single message? From the
> http draft I can see no hint whether it is possible or impossible.
It's possible, if browsers feel like supporting it. I know of no
browsers that currently provide such support. Netscape's
multipart/x-mixed-replace comes close enough that going to
multipart/mixed doesn't seem like a huge step, but it's not an obviously
"cool" thing to do so who knows.
Also, if you are writing a browser that implements multipart/x-mixed-replace,
please put a "Accept: multipart/x-mixed-replace" in your headers so that we
can compare for that in our server-push scripts rather than performing a
regexp on the user-agent... thanks.
Brian
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