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- (My news poster choked when I tried to followup via news; feel free to
- forward this to comp.infosystems.www, comp.mail.mime)
-
- In article <29596.741277437@moose.cs.indiana.edu> Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
- >HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a transaction oriented protocol
- >based on request-response. I believe there are some advantages to
- >being able to consider these components (the request and the response)
- >as MIME content-types, so they may be forwarded, gatewayed,
- >
- >- Allowing the full power of HTTP/1.0 to be utilized via a mailbot,
- > for users who cannot use HTTP directly due to limitations of dialup
- > links like UUCP, firewalls, etc.
-
- To implement this, check out the ServiceMail Toolkit, a package that
- helps in constructing mailbots that speak MIME. You'll find it in
- the metamail contrib distribution (try to get a recent version with
- ServiceMail 2.0). I'm the primary author, I'd be glad to help someone
- figure out how to use it for this application. (I'd been planning to
- do it myself.)
-
- ServiceMail installations usually use the Subject: field to contain
- the "method" and its parameters. Especially if you put it in the
- embedded message/http-request, this fits well.
-
- >- Allow an HTTP request or response to have some or all of the
- > security services made possible for MIME objects by the PEM-MIME
- > inter-operation standard (still in draft right now.)
-
- We're in the middle of adding PEM-MIME support to ServiceMail; we're
- directly supporting symmetric-key, in the PEM-MIME style. Public-key
- is still too hazy with respect to licensing.
-
- Jay Weber
- Enterprise Integration Technologies
-
-