htmlText and images

[Björnke von Gierke]

On Freitag, Jan 31, 2003, at 09:06 Europe/Zurich, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto 
wrote:

> At 2:17 PM -0800 1/29/03, Bjrnke 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....)

No problem, I'm glad that I am wrong, this clears some confusion I had 
with some of my handlers :-)