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	Title		: HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection
	Author(s)	: C. Smith, D. Eastlake 3rd, D. Soroka
	Filename	: draft-ietf-trade-mime-detector-00.txt
	Pages		: 12
	Date		: 10-May-99
	
Entities composing web pages to provide services over HTTP frequently
have the problem of not knowing what MIME types have handlers
installed at a user's browser.  For example, whether an IOTP or VRML
or SET or some streaming media handler is available.  In many cases
they would want to display different web pages or content depending
on a MIME handler's availability.  This document summarizes a
reasonable technique to solve this problem for most of the browsers
actually deployed on the Internet as of April 1999.  It is intended
to be of practical use to implementors during the period before the
wide deployment of superior standards based techniques which may be
developed.

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