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Re: Mime format

2001-03-20 09:50:03
     Is the file (which is indicated with Name, Site parameters) present in 
the
mail ? Who executed ftp command, is man who send the mail or man who 
received it
?

It is a set of parameters created by the *sender* of the mail, that tell the
*recipient* "here - run FTP like *THIS* to get the file".

We probably would have just put a URL like 
ftp://ftp-server.whatever.dom/some/path
instead, but that section of MIME was done in the early 90's and pre-dates
URLs.

Fixed some time ago. See RFC 2017.

                                Ned



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