Amelia A Lewis wrote:
>  
> ...
>  
>  You *are* aware that HTTP is "not a MIME-compliant protocol"?  Section
>  19.4.1, first sentence.  Although it's possible to do MIME-like (to use
>  the phrase from the RFC) stuff with it, it isn't the same.
>  
>  As long as the processors are packing and unpacking if they move between
>  protocols, it isn't that much of an issue.  But it isn't ... exactly ...
>  MIME.

I should have known to be more careful on xml-dev. ;)

AFAIK, all of the relevant strengths and weaknesses of MIME survive the
slight differences unaffected.

 Paul Prescod

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