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- One more comment on this:
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- > (I think the WWW protocols would require that the data be uuencoded,
- > since I don't think they will allow 8bit data)
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- WWW can inherently use several protocols to fetch data. Some of them
- may be limited to 7-bit characters, but the WWW architecture itself is
- designed with full 8-bit bytes. In particular, the HTTP protocol that
- we have defined supports 8-bit data. However, HTML, our language for
- describing hypertext, is based on SGML which is essentially a 7-bit
- construct (actually, it can only handle a predefined set of characters).
-
- Your impression may come from the fact that in the current
- implementation, as HTTP can only return HTML documents, the
- distinction between them is not clear. The new phase of HTTP that we
- are currently designing will be able to handle documents of arbitrary
- types. These documents are then processed by the client program
- depending on its own capabilities, with the possible help of external
- converters or applications, much like the Xwais.filters stuff.
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