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

[pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>]

Ya (slaps my own forehead).  Now remembering it correctly (I think).
HTTP downstream (towards the browser) is 8-bit clean.  It is the
uploading of files (using HTML form uploads) that are typically
encoded into some base64 type...

geoff wrote:
> To: pitz
> Jeff is right.  See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html for
> details.
>
> HTTP is 8-bit clean--any client or server that assumes 7-bit data is broken.
> Web pages have a content-type header which describes the MIME-TYPE of the
> data.
>  The HTTP protocol also supports encoding (i.e. gzip), but I have not seen
> that used by any Web sites.
>
> Geoff
>
>  > That's my understanding as well.  The HTTP server will have to encode
>  > binary data in some MIME format before sending it back to the
>  > browser.  I've read somewhere about an HTTP-ng that allows binary transport
>  > over the wire, but MIME-encoding is still standard on
>  > regular HTTP.
>
>  > Steven Hirsch wrote:
>  > > Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>  > >
>  > > >> There's a difference between spitting back a static web page preceeded
>  > > by HTTP >> headers and being able to transfer a binary file.  The latter
>  > > requires >> encoding and decoding the last I looked.
>  > > >
>  > > > 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.
>  > > >
>  > > > You mentioned MIME in another post but that has absolutely nothing to
>  > > > do with HTTP.  MIME is an encoding method that can be transferred in
>  > > > many ways but is most popular in e-mail.
>  > >
>  > > I don't do enough web coding to argue the point, but I thought the
>  > > standard dictated 7-bit ASCII and that MIME encoding was required.  I
>  > > have been wrong before and may well be mistaken about this.
>  >
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