Re: lynx-dev Attachments with lynx

[Leonid Pauzner]

30-Jan-99 02:18 sunil sumanth wrote:
> Hi All,

>       Does lynx identifies documents of "Content-Type" "MULTIPART/MIXED"
>       and treat each part seperately?? Can it display one part and store
>       the other part in some file?? ( Just as if 'pine' detects the
>       boundaries of attached files and stores/displays them differently ).

No.

Lynx mainly a text browser, it supports text/html, text/plain  Content-Type.
Other types, including application/octet-stream, assumed to be a binary
and Lynx ask the user for download (the file can be sent to any
external program or viewer if set in lynx.cfg configuration file,
so this is up to you).

Unlike mail agents, www agents and servers rerely use "MIXED" type
because HTTP protocol is 8bit clean, and rerely use "MULTIPART"
since this require too "intelligent" proxies but every document
can be easily sent separately, they are picked together
by the parent document' anchors.

> Thanku,
> sunil sumanth
> (address@hidden)