Re: MIME namespace...
Gabe Beged-Dov (begeddov@jfinity.com)
Tue, 8 Dec 1998 17:57:08 -0800
>one of the great values of MIME is its use with unknown quantities and
>content negotiation; depending on user settings and user agent
>capabilities, the pretty picture might be a PNG, a JPEG, a GIF, a BMP,
>or EPS.
This is definitely the case with HTTP as the access method. That's why I
used FTP in the example. There isn't any content negotiation in that case.
The same is true of the "file" access method. In the case of HTTP, the
content-type can be seen as more of a hint.
Gabe Beged-Dov
www.jfinity.com