Current status: working on progressing the standard from proposed to draft status
Chair(s):
Einar Stefferud <stef@nma.com>
Applications Area Director(s):
Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
"Patrik Fältström"<paf@swip.net>
Area Advisor
Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
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World Wide Web documents are most often written using Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). HTML is notable in that it contains "embedded content"; that is, HTML documents often contain pointers or links to other objects (images, external references) which are to be presented to the recipient. Currently, these compound structured Web documents are transported almost exclusively via the interactive HTTP protocol. The MHTML working group has developed three Proposed Standards (RFCs 2110, 2111 and 2112) which permit the transport of such compound structured Web documents via Internet mail in MIME multipart/related body parts.
The Proposed Standards are intended to support interoperability between separate HTTP-based systems and Internet mail systems, as well as being suitable for combined mail/HTTP browser systems.
It is beyond the scope of this working group to come up with standards for document formats other than HTML Web documents. However, the Proposed Standards so far produced by the working group have been designed to allow other such formats to use similar strategies.
To support implementation efforts, the WG Editor maintains an Informational Internet-Draft ftp://ftp.dsv.su.se/users/jpalme/draft-ietf-mhtml-info-06.txt which provides additional useful information for implementors. This Informational Draft also discusses Web page formatting choices that affect their efficient use through disconnected channels such as mail. It will become an Informational RFC after implementation experience has been collected. Until then, this informational draft will be kept current and available in the IETF Internet-Drafts library.
- Latest published RFC: 2387 PS
- E. Levinson, "The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type", August 1998. (Format: TXT=18864 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2112) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
- A revised version of RFC 2112 at URL:
- ftp://ftp.dsv.su.se/users/jpalme/draft-ietf-mhtml-rel-v2-01.txt
- Latest published RFC: 2392 PS
- E. Levinson, "Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators", (Format: TXT=11141 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2111) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
- A revised version of RFC 2111 at URL:
- http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Internet-documents/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mhtml-cid-v2-00.txt
- Latest published RFC: 2110 PS
- J. Palme, A. Hopman, "MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML)",03/12/1997. (Pages=19) (Format=.txt)
- A revised version of RFC 2110 in plain text format at URL:
- ftp://ftp.dsv.su.se/users/jpalme/draft-ietf-mhtml-rev-07.txt
- Not yet published as an RFC
- Sending HTML in E-mail, an informational supplement to RFC 2110: MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML): by Jacob Palme. It can be retrieved by anonymous FTP from URL in plain text format as:
ftp://ftp.dsv.su.se/users/jpalme/draft-ietf-mhtml-info-10.txt.
and in HTML format as:
http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/mhtml-info.html