Re: Inline Image and URL scheme

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Wed, 1 Nov 1995 16:25:05 PST


> I have two questions with respect to URL's and encapsulated images.
> Is there a URL's <scheme> that specifies a reference to another MIME part?

Check out

ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-levinson-cid-01.txt

> In other words, I want to send an encapluated image/gif within a mail message. The
> image is to be referenced from a text/html section. Note that a hyper link (like
> http) is to be avoided.

> A second related question is how to instruct the receiving end to show the
> image only from the text/html section and not from the image/gif section.

I believe the proposal will be to use multipart/related as specified
in draft-ietf-mimesgml-related-03.txt.