[Techtalk] [OT] What's a CID?

Telsa Gwynne hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Mar 25 15:37:53 EST 2004


On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 07:59:08PM +0530 or thereabouts, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On 25/03/04 10:48 +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:23:58AM +0100 or thereabouts, Dan Richter wrote:
> > > [A HREF="cid:031401Mfadb4$3f3dL708$73380718 at 57W81af70Re"]example.com[/A]
> > 
> > Of the "cid" in particular? 
> > 
> > On web-based forums, it's quite common to see "cid" (and "sid"
> > or something similar too) as part of the URLs to specific parts
> > of a discussion. I have always assumed that "cid" stands for 
> > "comment-ID". 
> Content ID. Look for a MIME/multipart email with inline attachments from
> Outlook or Outlook express. The content ID specifies the encoded content in
> the mail. Your MIME parser will look in the body of the message and
> decode that particular section and insert it into the HTML

Aha! That makes more sense.

> --
> 644 begin oetrap.txt
> This signature is not an attachment

I have to ask. Outlook Express trap? :) 

Telsa



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