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Re: lynx-dev ENCTYPE="multipart/formdata"
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Wayne Buttles |
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Re: lynx-dev ENCTYPE="multipart/formdata" |
Date: |
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:30:40 -0500 (EST) |
I need 8 bit clean.
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Philip Webb wrote:
> 981102 Rob Partington wrote:
> > I did try it and it worked fine. However, Lynx implemented this
> > according to the recommendations in the RFC,
> > ie it converts to 7 bit clean & adds a Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
> > At the moment, it only uses Base64.
> > none of the programs I tested it with supported the CTE header
> > so you're unlikely to be able to use it with the majority of sites.
> > modifying Lynx to send 8 bit data would require converting
> > a very large portion of libwww to use binary-capable string handling
>
> so the crucial question is whether we can omit the CTE-header part,
> while retaining the 7-bit-clean part: if so, we can quickly enable Lynx
> to handle typical sites out there; the rest is pedantry.
>
> > Persuading people to support the standards Lynx already supports
> > seems to be the order of things.
>
> that's clearly a long-lost cause: Lynx has to live in the real World.
>
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