[9052] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: bad-idea-of-the-day: Inline data as URL scheme?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Thu Aug 31 02:21:01 1995
To: sroussey@eng.uci.edu
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: "Steven T. Roussey"'s message of Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:10:21 -0700 <Pine.SUN.3.91.950830150058.11917A-100000@mazatlan.eng.uci.edu>
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 23:19:36 PDT
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> I'd also like to see 'inline' as a protocol. Then the HTTP server sends a
> MIME/mutipart message with an HTML part, and GIF parts etc, and the HTML
> gets the inlined data from urls like <OBJECT SCR="inline:cool.gif">. Then
> they can be sent as a single doc.
> This is handy if you want to eMail a doc with its inlined objects in the
> same message (I'm trying to get Netscape to do this for a mail program
> I'm writing. They send it this way, and I can understand it.)
This is already well worked out by the MIMESGML group in their
'multipart/related' proposal, see:
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mimesgml-related-02.txt
