Okay, but what does appending the file type as a query string help? As far as I can tell it only break stuff because people use your pop-up link generator which has links like <URL: http://www.michaelverdi.com/popup.php?url=http://michaelverdi.com/video/dresscode.mov > that are not media links, but links to HTML pages.
Here's the deal: - Most people will just have the file name. Normal procedures can be followed (first HTTP header, then filename and if content-type is text/plain and filename is .mp4 it's probably a misconfigured server and MP¤ should be assumed) - Some people will use query strings. This is usually serverside script pushing out the file. If there is a filename it can't be trusted. The content-type HTTP header can be trusted because people who are clever enough to pipe videos through a script are clever enough to have the script send the correct content-type header. - Feedburner already has the file extension correct (.mp4) in their enclosures. As long as the URL is seperated into approciate parts before parsing this is a non-issue. So what's the point in adding new arguments to the query string? As far as I can tell this thing was proposed because of a faulty script that didn't parse URLs for the filename properly. Call me a weirdo, but I prefer fixing that one script instead of forcing those of us who want to pipe stuff trough scripts to write URLs a certain way. And I'll shut up now. Promise. - Andreas On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:44:21 +0100, Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's my take... it would be great if mime-types solved the problem > and if the enclosure "type" attribute was always present and always > accurate. These things are not true in the wild world of RSS feeds. > The best and most consistent indicator of a file type based on what > people actually do is the file extension. It certainly would make > things easier if the URL contained an extension at the end... even if > it doesn't technically require it. Its not very hard to include > &type=.mp4 (or similar) at the end of a redirect URL since that URL is > completely arbitrary anyway. > > That said, we're working on a solution to this problem that will be > available in the next release of FireAnt for Windows (FireAnt for Mac > handles it fine). > > -Josh > > > On 3/17/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:35:35 +0100, Michael Sullivan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > it's like this.... tell me if including the media file name, as i >> > suggest, >> > breaks anything. tell me if it makes a url worse. tell me that it >> > makes no >> > sense to include the file name. tell me something to convince me that >> > this >> > suggestion is illogical without telling me 'its not a problem so why >> fix >> > it'. >> >> You're coming at this from the wrong angle. >> >> We have URLs and we have HTTP. Well-defined standards and they have been >> in use for almost 10 years. You want to change the way the URL work, >> which >> breaks backwards compatibility and *I* am supposed to give you more >> reasons not to go ahead? No, you should give *me* a good reason why >> redefining the meaning of the URL parts is a good idea. Why should we >> all >> spend time implementing this change when the current system has the same >> capabilities? >> >> Why is this change needed? >> How will it break old webpages? >> How will differences between the filename part of the URL and the >> filename >> given in the query string be handled? >> >> The change you're proposing is not simple at all. I still don't know >> *why* >> you want this change. Is it because you're having trouble determining >> mime >> type? In that case use an HTTP library that follows the same standard as >> everyone else have been using for the past 10 years - problem solved. No >> need for the rest of the world to change. In my last mail I listed the 3 >> step process required to determine a mime type in today's web - it's >> not a >> hard thing to do. Or do you have some other reason for proposing the >> changes? >> >> -- >> Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen >> <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > >> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
