Re: Marinetti 'casper' - How do I use it?

[Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>]

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
> > Anything sent via HTTP will have HTTP headers.  That is part of the
> > HTTP.  If you send data without those headers, you are no longer sending
> > via HTTP anymore.  There is also no encoding done by an HTTP server.
> > Encoded data can be transfered but it is never encoded by the HTTP
> > server unless you are talking about an HTTPS server which does do some
> > encoding for security but that is a different transfer protocol.
>
> I know that I can transfer non-HTTP binary files using
> "save link target as" after right clicking on a link.
>
> I haven't thought about why no HTTP headers are added before.

D'oh...  Yes, now that I think about it all the client cares about is that the 
header has correctly provided the length in bytes.  From that point on, "it's 
all just data".  What I'm still not clear on is how a client browser "tells" 
the server that it's _sending_ binary information and expects it to end up in 
a file.

At one point, I probably knew all this, but I spend my days in an entirely 
different area of software development and haven't really thought about Web 
coding in years.

Steve