Re: "cid" special identifier

At 01:23 PM 2001-11-28 , <SteveS@medecell.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I got your address from an XML message board.  I thought you might be able
>to help me out.  I am confused about the use of the attribute value "cid".
>I received an email with
>
><IFRAME height=0 src="cid:EA4DMGBP9p" width=0></IFRAME>
>
>with no other content.  Have you any ideas as to what the sender might be
>attempting to do?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve
> 

I am not going to hazard a guess as to just what your correspondent was trying
to do.  That often eludes my ken.

However, for the original or intended sense of a 'cid' URL and the Content-ID
header it is based on, please consult RFC-2392 and RFC-2045.  

I just succeeded in retrieving RFC-2392 by putting "RFC-2392" as the search
string in Google and hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" option.  YMMV.  Good
luck.

Al

Received on Wednesday, 28 November 2001 23:57:28 UTC