HTTP and GIFS

[bjb@bigbox.demon.co.uk]

Hi all,

Not exactly a MiNT question except that it may be a bug in the httpd on
a.a.
Is the HTTP protocol meant to be able to transfer binary files or just HTML
files? I had thought that you could use HTTP to grab binary files (like the
GIFS inlined in HTML files) as well as pure text, but when my HTTP transfer
program gets a GIF it loses all 0xd codes in the file. I have traced it to
httpd. Is this a bug caused by conversions of CRLF to LF or am I doing things
wrong?
(And while I'm at it does anyone know where I can the HTTP spec from? It
really needs to be FTP because my Web access is virtually non-existant at
the moment).

Thanks for any help.
Ben


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