Delivering dynamic content using cgi module

[Cameron Laird]

In article <38C7CEDE.E3233A86 at bellatlantic.net>,
Steve Holden  <sholden at BellAtlantic.net> wrote:
>Niels Diepeveen wrote:
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>> Steve Holden schreef:
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>> > things I am not considering here).  Normally a single document
>> > will have a single Content-Type.
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>> That's what I would think too, but just for a laugh, I looked it up. The
>> HTTP 1.1 specification says:
>>    In general, an HTTP user agent SHOULD follow the same or similar
>>    behavior as a MIME user agent would upon receipt of a multipart type.
>>    If an application receives an unrecognized multipart subtype, the
>>    application MUST treat it as being equivalent to "multipart/mixed".
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>> I can't remember seeing anyone use this though. I wonder if browsers
>> generally implement it.
Netscape's the only one I know.  Well, lynx can
be configured to do something, but arguably not
the right thing.

I have it at the level of rumor that Internet
Exploder will never respect multipart/mixed.
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>Eek!  Note, though, that the usual action of a user agent is to offer
>the embedded content as icons rather than to render them inline.  It
>would be difficult, though not impossible I suppose, to have multipart
>content with dribs of HTML around graphics, but then there would be no
>way of supplying the correct attributes to render the graphic.
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<URL:http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-02-2000/swol-02-regex_2.html>
touches on these matters obliquely.
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