Multipart Output

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Instead of generating the files directly, we could write a single response on STDOUT that is actually formatted as Multipart MIME Message. Standard system tools like UUDeview could be used to split this into multiple files.

See also this code:

• http://stanislavvitvitskiy.blogspot.de/2008/12/multipart-post-in-ruby.html
• https://github.com/toamitkumar/ruby-multipart-post

[nerab]

Creating a shell archive (shar) may be an alternative.

[nerab]

mhtml, created using the mail gem, may be another useful format.

At least Google Chrome seems to support it well. But I could not get it to be displayed when served via HTTP (even passing the appropriate HTTP response headers), only with local files.