Re: IMG tag and allowed image types...

lilley ([email protected])
Fri, 21 Jul 1995 21:34:49 +0100 (BST)


Adam Thodey said:

> How would I set up the IMG tag such that would allow many different
> formats to be downloaded depending on the users WEB browser?
>
> Would be be done, by lets say I had image type foo, bar, etc... and just
> used:
>
> <IMG SRC="imagename">
>
> would that automatically look for types or how would that work?

Depends on the server. With the CERN server, you would have

<IMG SRC="imagename.multi">

The NCSA server does not do content negotiation. The Apache server does
I think, but you would need to check. Don't know about the Netsite servers,
the EMWACS server or the WN server.

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