Re: Shouldn't Gnus (er, W3) inline related images in <img src=cid:...>?

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

> Quite a long time back, I recall there being some hackery done in Gnus,
> or perhaps W3, regarding proper inlining of images within a text/html
> message. As I see things today, in CVS-current 5.8.4, the inlining
> doesn't happen at all, and instead the cid:foo identifier is displayed in
> [square brackets] as the "content" of the text/html message. Oddly, even
> the content ID string dispalyed is mangled, being cut off at the first
> `.' -- is that perhaps the bug? Or is there some knob I'm supposed to
> have twisted in order to get the image to inline with the text/html
> directly? If you `C-d', you can see all the component parts, of course,
> but I wouldn't think I'd have to work that hard -- it's already supposed
> to show the image in question. Test message follows, using a smallish
> .gif image. "M-x w3-version RET" reveals "4.0pre.46", which is current in
> xemacs-packages.

Hrmm... Is the content-id supposed to have <...> around it?  Emacs/W3 just
looks for it raw.  Look at your messages buffer - do you see something like
"Unknown CID encountered: ..."?

-Bill P.