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Re: HTTP and GIFS

To: bjb@bigbox.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: HTTP and GIFS
From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 11:27:14 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
In-reply-to: <199506091832.OAA12950@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> from "bjb@bigbox.demon.co.uk" at Jun 9, 95 06:28:50 pm
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany

> Is the HTTP protocol meant to be able to transfer binary files or just HTML
> files? 

Binary.

> 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?

Looks like a bug in the `httpd' port.  Try working around by adding
the "b" flag to your UNIXMODE environment variable before running
`httpd'.

Michael
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References:
- HTTP and GIFS
  - From: bjb@bigbox.demon.co.uk

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