Re: MIME dump/load and implications

[Brian Candler]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:22:41AM -0500, Andrew Melo wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:16, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> However it can
>> also have "attachments", which are binary clean and each have their  
>> own MIME
>> type.
>
> Do couch attachments have to be binary clean? Like 7bit clean?
>
What I mean is, couchdb is 8-bit clean. Couch attachments can be arbitrary
streams of bytes, including JPGs, PNGs, PDFs, ZIPs etc. This is unlike
documents, which are restricted to UTF-8 and JSON objects.