- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:47:36 GMT
- To: jg@pa.dec.com
- Cc: Stef@nma.com, jpalme@dsv.su.se, lawrence@agranat.com, mhtml@segate.sunet.se, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>But back to the present: Mail archives in the Web are typically handled >by a program that takes mail messages as input and generates HTML as a set >of Web documents. An equally plausible extension to handle mhtml is >to retrieve the attached documents at the time the HTML is generated >from the mail message, rather than presuming the data is inline. >This requires no protocol support beyond what exists today (though >arguably is not as atomic in nature). Interestingly enough, one MIME-SGML proposal (the one that MIME-HTML is *not* based upon) could handle both cases perfectly well, even without multipart/related.
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