Re: Need some help

> If it is in a different file, maybe HTTP could be used to select the
> file that fullfills user's needs.

Correct.

> If the thrid case, where alternate media is included in the file, the
> whole file must be transmitted through the net, so again theres's no
> use in using HTTP to select media type.

That might be were we need HTTP extension: to request part of the
file, like "just the comment/title in an image file".

HTTP already has a HEAD request, different from regular GET, which is
used in HTML to return the <HEAD>..</HEAD> part, and HEAD could be
used with image/* as well to mean just the "header" part of the image,
not the bits.

Received on Wednesday, 9 July 1997 11:09:13 UTC