[Cosmo-dev] Bug 10304 and base64 encoding

[Travis Vachon]

On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Bobby Rullo 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)  
> 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.
>
> Now, Cosmo as an open service is important as well. To this end,  
> complying with the standard is important and therefore so base64  
> encoding the Atom content.
>
> 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.
>

Actually, for 0.7.2 I'd rather just revert changes instead of making  
more, though I'm only -0 on doing this for 0.7.2 if other folks are  
behind it. I think Bobby's proposal is worth considering for trunk,  
though I'd rather find a solution that works more in the spirit of  
the way we're doing things now (Atom + Google style projections).  
Perhaps some way of specifying the <content> element should contain  
"text/eim+json" vs "application/eim+json" should be considered for 0.8.

-Travis

> bobby
>
>
> On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Brian Moseley wrote:
>
>> On 9/10/07, Travis Vachon <travis at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, I'm -1 on leaving the code as-is in 0.7.2. I'm +0 on
>>> your proposal, but am still confused why any of these changes belong
>>> in this particular release. To be clear, I would be perfectly  
>>> content
>>> moving all of these changes (base64 encoding included!) into trunk.
>>
>> one could argue that .7 is broken in this regard. what if somebody
>> needed to build a client and the only library available to them
>> automatically attempted to base64 decode our entry content because of
>> its mime type?
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