freenetwork at web.de wrote: > Okay, replying to myself and topposting... *hands some spears* > > I made a test and simply replaced the mimetype with "image/gif", so the > "image" is broken but the browser still thinks it's an image and > hopefully behaves normal. > My Opera 9.23 sends a new request after 5 seconds, so from my side it > seems to work with binary based mimetypes.
Just tried a similar test with Firefox 2.0.0.12, using cat to splice together the headers and images and feeding them to netcat's stdin... the first image loads, then after 5 seconds it sends another request but doesn't seem to understand the response - a window pops up saying I'm trying to download a nameless file of type BIN. Worse, if the first image is embedded in an HTML page it never seems to try the refresh. Also did some quick tests with multipart/x-mixed-replace - it works, but you have to keep the connection open which defeats the purpose. Cheers, Michael
