The following draft[1] might also be applicable to the transport of binary/application data within an XMLP message. Jean-Jacques. The Application/Multiplexed content-type, like the Multipart/Related content-type, provides a mechanism for representing objects that consist of multiple components. An Application/Multiplexed entity contains a sequence of chunks. Each chunk contains a MIME message or a part of a MIME message. Each MIME message represents a component of the compound object, just as a body part of a Multipart/Related entity represents a component. With an Application/Multiplexed entity, a body part and its reference in some other body part may be separated by many octets -- more octets than a memory-constrained device can deal with. With an Application/Multiplexed entity, a chunk can contain part of a message. This allows a message and its reference in some other message to be made quite close -- close enough for a memory-constrained device to deal with. This document defines the Application/Multiplexed content-type. It also provides examples of its use. [1] http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-herriot-application-multiplexed-00.txtReceived on Friday, 11 May 2001 05:44:15 GMT
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