Re: Recursive look up of base in outer headers
Jacob Palme (jpalme@dsv.su.se)
Wed, 3 Sep 1997 03:15:33 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970902174216.18545F-100000@xochi.tezcat.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 03:15:33 +0200
To: Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>, Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
Subject: Re: Recursive look up of base in outer headers
Cc: mhtml@SEGATE.SUNET.SE, uri@bunyip.com
At 17.47 -0500 97-09-02, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Al Gilman wrote:
> > Particularly, if the same Content-Base + Content-Location value
> > pair are at risk of being interpreted one way when transmitted
> > in MIME and another way when transmitted via HTTP I see this as
> > a likely source of trouble and too arcane for prime time.
>
> I agree with this, though. But I don't think anybody disagrees.
The MHTML standard says that the order of headers within the same Content-
Heading has no effect on the interpretation of the headers (in the case
of the headers Content-Base and Content-Location). From what you say,
there does not seem to be any reason to change this.
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