RFC 1521:MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensio...
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... multimedia messages that might include audio or images, are simply not mentioned. Even in the case of text, however, RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) is inadequate for the needs of mail users whose ...
... mail message. 2.e An "image" Content-Type value, for transmitting still image ...
... image" Content-Type value, for transmitting still image (picture) data. ...
... Content-Type value, for transmitting video or moving image data, possibly with audio as part of the composite ...


... type of data, while the subtype specifies a specific format for that type of data. Thus, a Content-Type of "image/xyz" is enough to tell a user agent that the data is an image ...
... image/xyz" is enough to tell a user agent that the data is an image, even if the user agent has no knowledge of the specific image ...
... image, even if the user agent has no knowledge of the specific image format "xyz". Such information can be used, for example, to decide whether or not to show a user the raw data from an unrecognized subtype -- such an action might be ...
... data from an unrecognized subtype -- such an action might be reasonable for unrecognized subtypes of text, but not for unrecognized subtypes of image or audio. For this reason, registered subtypes of audio ...
... audio. For this reason, registered subtypes of audio, image, text, and video, should not contain embedded information that is really of a different type. Such compound types should be represented using the "multipart" or ...
... type := "application" / "audio" / "image" / "message" / "multipart" / "text" / "video" / extension-token ...
... external data source. image -- image data. Image requires a display device ...
... image -- image data. Image requires a display device (such as a graphical display, a printer, or a FAX machine ...
... image -- image data. Image requires a display device (such as a graphical display, a printer, or a FAX machine) to view the information. Initial ...
... (such as a graphical display, a printer, or a FAX machine) to view the information. Initial subtypes are defined for two widely-used image formats, jpeg and gif. ...
... video -- video data. Video requires the capability to display moving images, typically including specialized hardware and software. The initial ...


... The ability to associate some descriptive information with a given body is often desirable. For example, it may be useful to mark an "image" body as "a picture of the Space Shuttle Endeavor." Such text may be placed in the Content-Description header field. ...


... distinguish them, at the highest level, from such unreadable data as images, audio, or text represented in an unreadable form. In the absence of appropriate interpretation software, it is reasonable to ...
... X.400 mail, for example, must be able to tell the difference between a body part that contains an image and a body part that contains an encapsulated message, the body of which is an image ...
... image and a body part that contains an encapsulated message, the body of which is an image. In order to represent the latter, the body part must have "Content-Type: ...
... encapsulated message, with its own "Content-Type: image" header field. The use of similar syntax facilitates the conversion of messages to body parts, and vice versa, but the distinction ...
... which format to view. This makes sense, for example, if mail includes both a nicely-formatted image version and an easily-edited text version ...
... Content-type: image/gif Content-ID: <id42@guppylake.bellcore.com> ...
... are "ASCII", "EBCDIC", "IMAGE", and "LOCALn" where "n" is a decimal integer, typically 8. These correspond to the ...
... RFC-959]. Note that "BINARY" and "TENEX" are not valid values for MODE, but that "OCTET" or "IMAGE" or "LOCAL8" should be used instead. IF MODE is not specified, the default value is ...
... FTP; directory="pub"; mode="image"; expiration="Fri, 14 Jun 1991 19:13:14 -0400 (EDT)" ...
... The Image Content-Type ...
... A Content-Type of "image" indicates that the body contains an image. The subtype names ...
... A Content-Type of "image" indicates that the body contains an image. The subtype names the specific image ...
... image. The subtype names the specific image format. These names are case insensitive. Two initial subtypes are "jpeg" for the JPEG format, ...
... GIF]. The list of image subtypes given here is neither exclusive nor exhaustive, and is expected to grow as more types are registered with IANA ...
... content-type header field for data of type image is given by: image ...
... image is given by: image-type := "image" "/" ("gif" / "jpeg" / extension-token) ...
... image-type := "image" "/" ("gif" / "jpeg" / extension-token) ...
... A Content-Type of "video" indicates that the body contains a time- varying-picture image, possibly with color and coordinated sound. The term "video" is used extremely generically, rather than with ...


... Types provide a standardized mechanism for tagging messages or body parts as audio, image, or several other kinds of data. A distinguished parameter syntax allows further specification of data format details, particularly the specification of alternate character sets ...


... MIME-conformant mailer might still include audio, image, or video, should also be treated in this way. A user agent ...


... --unique-boundary-2 Content-Type: image/gif Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 ...
... ... base64-encoded image data goes here.... --unique-boundary-2-- ...


... Content-ID" ":" msg-id image-type := "image" "/" ("gif" / "jpeg" / extension-token) ...
... image-type := "image" "/" ("gif" / "jpeg" / extension-token) ...
... audio" ; case-insensitive / "image" / "message" / "multipart" / "text" / "video" / extension-token ...


... ________________________________________________________________ Content-type: image Subtypes defined by this document: jpeg, gif ...


... line conventions are used as well. The body may be a UNIX-style text file, or a Sun raster image, or a VMS indexed file, or audio data in a system-dependent format stored only in memory, or anything else ...



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