- From: Mitra <mitra@path.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 16:44:24 -0800
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
- Cc: Marc Salomon <marc@library.ucsf.edu>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>In message <ab1685b2030210040a79@[192.190.111.98]>, Mitra writes: >>One thing to consider (not that i think this is a bad idea) is that often >>the objects being sent along are images leading to two non-optimisations. >> >>1) Mime encoding is going to roughly double the number of bytes sent At 4:18 PM 12/15/94, Daniel W. Connolly wrote: >Hello? Mime encoding adds a few bytes between objects for the boundary. >HTTP is 8-bit clean, after all. No base64 needed. Hmm - maybe I'm missing something, but I dont think you can put the file in WITHOUT encoding, if you are looking for a boundary, what if the file contained the wrong bytes and got interpreted as the boundary. - Mitra ======================================================================= Mitra mitra@path.net Internet Consulting (415)488-0944 <http://www.path.net/mitra> fax (415)488-0988
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