[Cosmo-dev] Bug 10304 and base64 encoding

[Brian Moseley]

On 9/10/07, Bobby Rullo <br at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> The reality is that this there is no client who can do much of
> anything with EIM+JSON except for the WebUI, and the primary (only)

what makes you think that?

> consumer of it is the web browser. The EIM+JSON feed would  never
> have existed if not for the web UI. So the needs of the web UI are of
> primary importance here.

the one statement doesn't follow from the other. just because a tool
was developed to meet one need doesn't mean that other people won't
come along and want to use that tool.

> Travis suggested in IRC having base64 encoding on by default, but
> having the ability to turn it off via a header or query string. This
> solution would seem to me to satisfy everyone's needs.

if we can prove conclusively that the web ui does not perform well
enough without encoding, then i don't mind considering an option like
this. of course, we'd have to define some performance goals first.