On Saturday, August 12, 2000, 8:07:51 PM, Ming-Li wrote:
> Hi Januk,
>> I'm using IE 5.5, and I don't have the .mht file type available
>> to me. Perhaps OE5 installs the appropriate drivers?
> Hmm, it surely does look like so. MS just has to exploit every
> opportunity to tie their products together. I don't use OE either,
> but it's bundled with Win2k, so it's in my system.
>>> The .mht files is indeed quite handy when having to save the
>>> whole page in one file. I use it all the time. But the downside
>>> is not all browsers recognize it.
>> Ah, that is a big downside, especially for future reference.
> Indeed. Opera can't read it right. Netscape does, though.
>> Does anyone know if there any other methods that are more
>> universal?
> I would like to know about that, too.
Opening up a .mht file in an editor shows it's no great miracle of
invention - it's a multipart MIME-encoded text file, e.g. (from a VCDJ
article I just grabbed for reference):
> From: <Saved by Microsoft Internet Explorer 5>
> Subject: Listing 1
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:17:36 -0400
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/related;
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0079_01C0049A.5B310DB0";
> type="text/html"
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700
>
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0079_01C0049A.5B310DB0
> Content-Type: text/html;
> charset="Windows-1252"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> Content-Location:
>http://www.devx.com/upload/free/features/vcdj/2000/07jul00/bn2_0007/listing1.asp
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Listing 1</TITLE>
> ...
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0079_01C0049A.5B310DB0
> Content-Type: image/gif
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Location: http://ads.devx.com/adgifs/Unify1_8.1.00.gif
> ...
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0079_01C0049A.5B310DB0
> Content-Type: image/gif
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Location: http://www.devx.com/images/general/devxrule.gif
>
> R0lGODlh5QACALP/AP///97n76Wt1u/v9+fn997e79bW787O57W13q2t1qWlzqWl1pyczs7G58a9
> 3gAAACwAAAAA5QACAAAEWpCQUow5pzmHUEqLwoxkaZ5oqq5s675wzC50/d1fp3fc5muNYBBDPFiO
> FoqyMCEEJISBVBqgWDCOxu4Tknm/4LB4fBKZQzTcbcfT9XyOTKNIRCaXhapz8IxKIwA7
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0079_01C0049A.5B310DB0--
So any decent MIME-aware Internet app like Opera _should_ be able to open
it, parse it, and dump it into a browser window.
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