On 11/25/08 5:20 AM, "Paul McCullagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 22, 2008, at 4:00 AM, Mark Atwood wrote:
>
>> On Nov 16, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Paul McCullagh wrote:
>>
>>> As Tim mentioned, the BLOB streaming engine stores the MIME type
>>> along with the BLOB data in the repository.
>>> BLOBs are uploaded with HTTP PUT and downloaded with HTTP GET so
>>> considering the MIME type to be part of the BLOB is easy and
>>> extremely practical.
>>
>>
>> What about all the other pieces of potential HTTP metadata?
>
> Theoretically it could all be stored in the repository. But I think
> the content type, which includes the charset information, is the most
> important.
>
Rather than just storing selected HTTP header fields we could just store
them all as one block of text. They could then be packed back into the reply
header when the blob is read back. If people are interested in particular
header fields they can process the text themselves. This way we are not
trying to guess in advance which http headers are important to people and
which are not.
Content type and charset could maybe have their own column.
Barry
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