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The reply was especially amusing:

"I was proposing to use the file extension (.xbm above) to tag what format the image was in, but with the intention that in future, when HTTP2 comes along, the same format negotiation technique would be used to access images."

Almost twenty years later and still no HTTP2!

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0183.ht...




Yes we do, it's just called HTTP 1.1 instead - and that exact functionality luckily made it in.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec12.html




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