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- >I mean that there is a clash between the URL/URI work and the MIME
- >external context format. For example there are two ways of writing
- >a reference to an FTP archive. It would be neat to amalgamate them.
- >I personally think the MIME format is too longwinded (look at the
- >ref on the end of your earlier message -- that could have been 1 line).
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- I don't see that there's a clash. There's a certain redundancy, but
- that's nothing new.
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- If you're using MIME encapsulation techniques to attach an ftp file
- to a body part, you use the message/external-body mechanism. But
- if you're writing HTML, you put a URL in an anchor.
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- It might be nice if WWW clients could parse MIME multipart and
- message types, but it seems reasonable to just pass them on to
- metamail or some such MIME user agent.
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- On the other hand, a MIME user agent need not grok HTML -- it just
- passes it along to the WWW client.
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- Am I missing something?
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- Dan
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