On 18 Jul 2013, at 08:30, Daniele Ricci <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings,
> I found out to be needing a "type" attribute in the <url/> element in
> XEP-0066 [1]. I guess it could be useful as a hint to know in advance
> the mime type of what we are going to download (e.g. for http URIs).
> What do you think?

Could you not just do an HTTP HEAD request to discover the MIME type if you 
need to know the type before downloading it?

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Ash

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