Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 09:44:42 +0100 From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch> Message-Id: <9211260844.AA01192@www3.cern.ch> To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch Subject: re: Questions and comments > Date: Wed, 25 Nov 92 19:43:50 -0500 > From: Thomas A. Fine <fine@cis.ohio-state.edu> > Yes, MIME would be good. But would you make WWW pass > around MIME documents only, with HTML being one of the > Content-Types, Yes, this way. I am no great fan of the MIME wrappers (they are so mail-oriented and human-readable!) but I am so strongly in favor of merging related technlogies that I feel MIME should do that, just as SGML should do the mark-up. So in HTTP2, a document will be returned as a MIME message. That is one reason for getting text/html registerd as a MIME format now. > or would you have http handle several > different doc types, including both MIME and HTML? That's too many wheels within wheels. > tom Tim