"G. Wade Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently ran into a question while working on a debugging tool that > I think this group may be best suited to answer. > > How likely is an HTTP response with a MIME type of multipart/*? > > 1. theoretically possible, but not actually done. > 2. used in research but not in actual practice. > 3. used in some very specialized applications. > 4. incredibly common, and I'd have to be an idiot for not noticing. > 5. other answer
Depends what context you're talking about. multipart/mixed are never returned (AFAIK) to a browser because browsers don't implement multipart mixed handling (instead a feature of HTTP is used to get different types of content efficiently). multipart/alternative *might* be returned to browsers in these days of HTML vs XML but I'm not aware of any browser handling it. But that's just browsers. There are a whole range of applications where servers are talked to by non-browser UAs and in those situations I don't know how much multipart types are used. So I suspect statement 3 covers it. Nic Ferrier ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
