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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.143137.29608@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 14:31:37 GMT
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- In article <C0LA9I.9AB@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- >MIME works fine as is with gopher. I can't imagine a reason why it
- >wouldn't work fine with ftp as well. There is serious discussion of
- >adding MIME to USENET news as a new enhanced article format.
-
- Forgive me for being stupid, but MIME states that certain information
- necessary for unpicking the text should be carried in message headers
- by the use of new header fields. FTP does not have a concept of message
- (or file) headers. If it does "work" with FTP (e.g. to allow the
- correct transmission of mixed text/binary files between systems with
- different character codes, which is one application I have in mind)
- it does so by some method not described in RFC 1341. What I am asking
- is what form this method takes, i.e. whether it is the use of the
- MIME headers (MIME-Version, Content-Type etc.) as the first lines of
- the file.
-