- From: Andrew Prendergast <ap@geekz.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:57:58 +1000
- To: <www-talk@w3.org>, "Mukul Gandhi" <mgandhi@mtcindia.com>
Nobody has put their hand up... why not build it yourself and give us all the details? ap. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mukul Gandhi <mgandhi@mtcindia.com> To: <www-talk@w3.org> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [www-talk] <none> > I can send a html page, image or other type of content identified by their > mime types through an email client. And also vice versa, i.e I can recieve > the mime attachments in emails. If my mail reader understands mime, it will > display the attachments in their original format. > But the question was I think , If I have a normal mime compliant email s/w, > and I want to place http requests & don,t have internet access, can I > request & get a document from a http server ? > > -mukul > > >Multipart content type with graphics attached. I've done it in Outlook > >Express, dunno if it works with anything else.. > > > >Normally the best way to send WWW pages is with "Content-type: text/html" in > >the headers - works in most readers - but if one can't download images via > >HTTP then it'll look pretty weird.. > > > >ap.. > > > > >> I think if an e-mail client implements HTTP apart from mail > >> protocols(POP3/SMTP etc), it is possible. Browser is a classic example. IE > >> & Netscape both implement email interfaces along with HTTP.. > >> may be ur saying that by not connected to www, and only email. Then > >> something should convert HTTP into mail protocol equivalents & vive versa.. > >> It should be possible.. > >> > >> -mukul > >> > >> >I have heard there are some method to access WWW by e-mail ,is it true?If > >> >true, what should I do ? >
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