- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 04:06:07 PDT
- To: mseaton@inforamp.net
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
> Is there currently any proposal that would permit one to > refer to a file contained within a multipart document or > archive? > For instance, if the file rotor.gif were contained in the > archive avionics.tar, how would rotor.gif be referenced? > avionics.tar//rotor.gif? > avionics.tar#/rotor.gif? > avionics.tar||rotor.gif? There was a proposal at one time that named anchors (like what occurs after a #) might be defined per media type. text/html defines what #xxxxx means: look for <A NAME="xxxxx"> in the referenced object. so application/tar might define that #xxxxxxx means "look for a subpiece of this entity whose file name is xxxxxxx". The only tricky parts are dealing with the character set issues. None of this has been written up in an Internet-Draft or experimental RFC though.
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