- From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:20:09 +0100
- To: discuss@apps.ietf.org
At 03.40 +0100 99-02-21, Martin J. Duerst wrote: > > XML is a text format. As such, it can be transcoded by mail gateways. > If you label something as > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=us-ascii > and it gets transcoded to EBCDIC, the binary data won't survive. > > The web can easily include binary data, it's done all the time > with images, just use a link instead of putting things inline :-). If by link you mean an URL, I can see problems with it. If you want to send secret data, you may not wish part of the data to be available through an URL - not even if that URL contains a password. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme
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