According to Geoff Hutchison:
> A few weeks ago, Henry Rzepa asked about parsing image files like GIF 
> and PNG, which have built-in comments fields. Obviously, this could 
> be done by having Retriever::got_image call got_href as well and add 
> the image URLs to the pile. This was what Gilles suggested.
> 
> I pointed out that we have an Images class, which supposedly checks 
> on the size of images (in K) to get the total size of a document 
> including images. This is the purpose of the DocImageSize field of 
> the DocumentRef class. I pointed out that this could be used for this 
> purpose and then noticed that it doesn't call the Transport classes.
> 
> This class doesn't get called at all. It would be called from the 
> Retriever::got_image method, but this is commented out.
> 
> I suggest we toss the class and the field in the DocRefs and add an 
> option to add image URLs to the retrieval list. I think this needs at 
> least a little discussion and a vote even though it's essentially a 
> call to remove a dead class.

Sounds good to me.

+1      remove dead class
+1      add option to retrieve image urls

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Phone:  (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)   Fax:    (204)789-3930

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