[webkit-dev] Extending the multipart support

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Sep 21, 2007, at 8:09 AM, David D. Kilzer wrote:

> WebKit supports multipart/x-mixed-replace as long as the content  
> type doesn't
> change (14149) or as long as it's not used through an XMLHttpRequest  
> (14392):
>
> http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14149
> http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14392
>
> The multipart/related (7168), multipart/mixed (9389)  and multipart/ 
> alternate
> (no bug filed; please consider filing one) content types are not  
> supported yet.
>
> http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7168
> http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9389

To support non-replace multipart schemes, where resources are  
considered related, you'd want to provide some implementation of the  
cid: URL scheme that knows how to find attachments. Currently we  
consider this the domain of mail clients to handle. Is there  
significant non-replace multipart content on the web that would be  
useful to support?

Regards,
Maciej