Re: Content-Disposition Header

[Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx>]

To:  Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Subject:  Re: Content-Disposition Header
Date:  Sat, 26 Jun 1993 18:34:02 -0400 (EDT)

> Excerpts from mail: 26-Jun-93 Re: Content-Disposition Hea.. Keith
> Moore@cs.utk.edu (1242)
> 
> > This works as long as "hidden" body parts are required to preceed
> > the parts that reference them.
> 
> Which we could require, if we're willing to state that there's never any
> circularities.  Can an object have both "owner" & "requires"?  Can these
> things nest or be mutually referential?  How hard it will be to
> implement depends on this.  A general-purpose implementation has to be
> fairly complex, but if we're willing to say that there's no cycles
> (possibly because you can't have both owner  & requires, or possibly
> just because you aren't allowed to have cycles, so cycles can be treated
> as errors) then a linear implementation is more plausible, but the
> general mechanism is less powerful.

I just realized that I might want to mail someone a set of application/html
docs that have cyclic references among one another.  Hmmm...

-Keith