I've just been reading the latest Uniform Resource Locators draft
(or whatever URL today means) by Tim Berners-Lee
(internet-drafts/draft-ietf-uri-url-00.{ps,txt}) which describes a
general way of describing objects that are reachable thru WWW,
gopher, wais, anon-ftp, afs ,.... I think this might be a
way to handle some of the different external-body formats.
Are the any plans to add a new access-type for URL's?
As an example we could use something like:
Content-type: message/external-body; access-type=URL;
url="ftp://nic.nordu.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-uri-url-00.ps";;
Content-type: application/postscript
Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
Pekka Kyt|laakso
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