[Rails-spinoffs] Re: About X-JSON header and evil things... ;)

[Colin Mollenhour]

This is a *great* idea in my opinion. I myself have experienced the size limitations of the X-JSON header before.  However, I don't see why there can't be support for both so that backwards compatibility isn't broken. Programmers would just have to know that you can't use them both simultaneously. That said, I wouldn't mind seeing X-JSON replaced with Content-type but it would mean hours of going back and changing code. Colin Kjell Bublitz wrote: Just for reference towards discussion, here a quote from the RFC: ".4. The Application Content-Type The "application" Content-Type is to be used for data which do not fit in any of the other categories, and particularly for data to be processed by mail-based uses of application programs. This is information which must be processed by an application before it is viewable or usable to a user. " http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1521.html Thats why i chose "text/x-json" over "application/x-json". It is readable text, after all Kjell On 1/20/07, Kjell Bublitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Peter None of theme are approved, but according to the RFC, the text-tree is closest one when it comes down to properly describing the content. You put everything into "application" that is too specific or "does not fit into any of the other categories" Kjell On 1/20/07, Peter Michaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/19/07, Kjell Bublitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While looking thru the brand new documentation i found myself stumbling upon the X-JSON header "again" as being suggested for automatic json evaluation within prototype. I must say that this approach is bad. We should evaluate on content type. It is simple to add and i wonder why no one else did it already. The content-type "text/x-json" is the closest acceptable description according to the RFCs and should be used by prototype to determine if evaluation is in order. Just like text/_javascript_, which is implemented already. Why "text/x-json" and not "application/json" which is the approved JSON mime-type? Peter -- _javascript_ for Rails: http://forkjavascript.org -- Kjell -- www.m3nt0r.de --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---