htmlText and images

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto jeanne at runrev.com
Fri Jan 31 03:19:50 EST 2003


At 2:17 PM -0800 1/29/03, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
>You are downloading images as html. That won't work, because html is a
>ascii transfer, not a binary one.
>You must use "binfile:www.sitename.com/images/mymage.jpg" instead.

This isn't right. HTTP is an 8-bit transfer protocol and will download
images fine, and "binfile" is a scheme for local files - it won't work with
files on a server. "http://www.sitename.com/images/myimage.jpg" is correct.

(Not to embarrass anyone but just to avoid others' confusion....)

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