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Re: An MGET proposal for HTTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Sanders)
Wed Nov 2 00:42:17 1994
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:59:29 +0100
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From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
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ts writes:
> > If you take the view that they don't, then the optimisation that Guy speaks
> > of is reasonable. Although what his scripts do with, say
..
> Actually this script check only "image/gif" and send a clickable map
> (ISMAP). It don't check "*/*" (or "*") because all browsers (I think) send
> this Accept type and I don't want send a GIF image to see the magic word
> "<IMAGE>" and can't use it.
This "optimisation" may happen to work now but I think it is the wrong
approach for the long run. Maybe we need clients to send something like:
Accept: text/html, text/plain, image/gif; img
So that servers could make better presentation choices
for ISMAP/Spacejump images.
Sounds yucky to me, just thinking out loud.
