Re: lynx-dev File uploads

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 08:49:48PM +0000, David Woolley wrote:
> > The PHP modification doesn't look easy either.  Do you know
> > if the Content-transfer-encoding: HTTP header is standard
> 
> It's explicitly *illegal*, at least with base64 or quoted-printable.  See:
> <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec19.html#sec19.4.5>
> 
>    HTTP does not use the Content-Transfer-Encoding (CTE) field of RFC
>    2045. Proxies and gateways from MIME-compliant protocols to HTTP MUST
>    remove any non-identity CTE ("quoted-printable" or "base64") encoding
>    prior to delivering the response message to an HTTP client.

thanks (during the discussion a year ago, no one mentioned this).

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