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

[Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>]

a2retro wrote:
>  To: Steven Hirsch
> Steven Hirsch 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.
> >
> > --- Synchronet 3.14a-Win32 NewsLink 1.85
>
> Hi
>
> Steve, it is not sending static web pages. Casper does load files from 
> the directory directly. I tried sending a simple html file and that 
> worked okay but sending a binary file failed with a repeatable memory 
> error.
>
> I would have to look at the source .. not sure if it's designed to 
> handle non ascii data.

I'm guessing that MIME encoding was not implemented.  This may be a good 
excuse to get up to speed on //gs C coding!