In article <bc6edf1c-eed9-2f77-8a95-7ecc78c86e8a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >Transferring files that are not HyperText files using HTTP is in poor taste, much like eating salad with >a fork that is not a salad fork. Better tell Tim B-L. His HTTP/1.0 RFC in 1996 allowed arbitrary MIME types. I also think these days you may find the occasional web page with embedded images and other media, all of which are served over http. R's, John