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Foil 60 Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME)

From Overview of Basic Web and Internet Technologies Beijing Web Tutorial -- May 27-30 1997. by Geoffrey Fox *
Goals
  • Multimedia, multi-language, multi-component extension of RFC-822
  • Full backward compatibility with RFC-822
  • Open design to incorporate multiple well-known formats
  • Easy extension to new types and formats
Retain RFC-822 header+body format
Add new header fields
Allow for multipart multimedia bodies
Include media type and encoding information in new header fields such as: Content-Type, Content-Description, Content-Transfer-Encoding, Content-ID
Retain 7-bit ASCII for all valid encoding schemes
Implement multi-component bodies via a special 'magic type' Content-Type: multipart

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