RFC 2557 on MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents

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        RFC 2557: 

        Title:	    MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as
		    HTML (MHTML)
	Author(s):  J. Palme, A. Hopmann, N. Shelness
        Status:     Proposed Standard
	Date:       March 1999
        Mailbox:    [e-mail], [e-mail],
		    [e-mail]
	Pages:      28
	Characters: 61854
        Obsoletes:  2110
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-mhtml-rev-07.txt


        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2557.txt


This document a) defines the use of a MIME multipart/related structure
to aggregate a text/html root resource and the subsidiary resources it
references, and b) specifies a MIME content-header (Content-Location)
that allow URIs in a multipart/related text/html root body part to
reference subsidiary resources in other body parts of the same
multipart/related structure.

This document is a product of the MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML
Documents Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
"Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the
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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute

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