[JDEV] MIME, was My evil plans for a client.

[Thomas D. Charron]

  Previouse proposals would be to use an http URL to transfer these types of files..  There are many, MANY easy to use tools to provide for these types of transfers..

  I actually had a semi-working file transfer function without a Win32 client thta split up a file and uuencoded it, sending it along inside of the <ext></ext> tags..

  There are MANY ways to do this..  I firmly belive that there should be a way to stream file transfers, hence, easily allowing for offline storage.  the UUENCODE way worked, as jabbertransport already supports buffering of offline users messages..
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Thomas Charron

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:23:31    Tim Lesher wrote:
>> Unfortunately, with the way MIME plain is, you'd be forced to download the
>> whole message. However, you wouldn't be forced to look at it. Undocumented
>> MIME extensions do exist whereby they send a URL for the part, but I don't
>> think we should go there.
>
>I disagree.  I think there needs to be some way to help folks who don't want
>to or currently have time to download a large multimedia attachment.  Think
>of a home user, running a Jabber client over a 28.8 modem connection.
>
>I don't know whether a URL, or some other client-to-client negotiation is in
>order, but I think it's something we need to address.
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>Tim Lesher
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