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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport
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david@lang.hm wrote:
> 
> Ok, I was wrong, thanks to everyone for correcting me. I now know this.
> 

It's an easy mistake to make given HTTP's apparent connections with 
MIME.  However, all it uses from MIME is the type tags, it doesn't use 
MIME encapsulation format at all.

	-hpa