Re: misconceptions about MIME [long]
Dan Connolly (connolly@pixel.convex.com)
Wed, 28 Oct 92 10:57:38 CST
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To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: misconceptions about MIME [long]
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 92 16:40:32 +0100."
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 10:57:38 CST
From: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com>
>Would it be reasonable of us to take Dan's cue and change HTTP2 so that
>the returned message is a MIME format?
You mean use MIME content types for HTTP2 format negociation: exactly!
> Would MIME in return (a) add
>text/SGML/HTML as a MIME format
Just write a spec for it and register it with the IANA.
> (who registers DTD names?
The ISO grants public text identifiers for DTDs.
> and also
>use an IETF standard URL a the external reference format?
I'm not sure I understand this part. Sure you can have a format
called text/html, and sure you can put URLs in it, but that
doesn't mean URLs have to become part of the MIME standard.
Dan