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Re: Alternative multipart/alternative?

1999-09-13 14:55:20
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:29:26 PDT, Laurence Lundblade said:
One option to get around this might be to assume that m/a is generally used 
only for text/plain and text/html. I can't recall seeing anything else. If

I've actually seen one that had text/plain, text/html, and application/msword.
I seeme to remember one that was text/html and an external-bodypart reference
to a VRML file, but that could have been just a bad dream ;)

that's the case then you make your decision at coding time. If your 
implementation can deal with HTML you always skip the text/plain 
alternative. If it can't you always take the text/plain alternative.

I've seen *plenty* of borked multipart/alternative that only includes
a text/plain bodypart. This would Lose Big Time if your implementation
always chooses the HTML variant. ;)

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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