>Some time ago someone, in comp.infosystems.www someone wanted to
>return in one 'message' both a generated image and the generated
html
>'envelope' that contains it as inline image. Could this be expressed
as
>well via multipart types? Could external bodyparts map onto URL's?
>If this has been discussed before, are there some pointers?
Check out the HTTP spec -- It has multipart handling in,
subject to negotiation. This followed from a discussion on
this list. The relevant bit is [hidden in ;-)]
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/Object_Headers.html
The code is not yet added to HTMIME.c in libwww -- volunteers?
Tim BL