Amelia A Lewis wrote:
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>...
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> You *are* aware that HTTP is "not a MIME-compliant protocol"? Section
> 19.4.1, first sentence. Although it's possible to do MIME-like (to use
> the phrase from the RFC) stuff with it, it isn't the same.
>
> As long as the processors are packing and unpacking if they move between
> protocols, it isn't that much of an issue. But it isn't ... exactly ...
> MIME.
I should have known to be more careful on xml-dev. ;)
AFAIK, all of the relevant strengths and weaknesses of MIME survive the
slight differences unaffected.
Paul Prescod
