{
  "draft": "draft-herriot-application-multiplexed-05",
  "doc_id": "RFC3391",
  "title": "The MIME Application/Vnd.pwg-multiplexed Content-Type",
  "authors": [
    "R. Herriot"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "25",
  "pub_status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "source": "Legacy",
  "abstract": "The Application/Vnd.pwg-multiplexed content-type, like the\r\nMultipart/Related content-type, provides a mechanism for representing\r\nobjects that consist of multiple components.  An Application/Vnd.pwg-\r\nmultiplexed entity contains a sequence of chunks. Each chunk contains\r\na MIME message or a part of a MIME message. Each MIME message\r\nrepresents a component of the compound object, just as a body part of\r\na Multipart/Related entity represents a component. With a\r\nMultipart/Related entity, a body part and its reference in some other\r\nbody part may be separated by many octets. With an\r\nApplication/Vnd.pwg-multiplexed entity, a message and its reference\r\nin some other message can be made quite close by chunking the message\r\ncontaining the reference. For example, if a long message contains\r\nreferences to images and the producer does not know of the need for\r\neach image until it generates the reference, then\r\nApplication/Vnd.pwg-multiplexed allows the consumer to process the\r\nreference to the image and the image before it consumes the entire\r\nlong message.  This ability is important in printing and scanning\r\napplications. This document defines the Application/Vnd.pwg-\r\nmultiplexed content-type. It also provides examples of its use.",
  "pub_date": "December 2002",
  "keywords": [
    "multipurpose internet mail extensions",
    "media type"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC3391",
  "errata_url": null
}