Re: Draft proposal: Indirection for <content>

[Eric Scheid <eric.scheid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/6/04 12:09 AM, "Janne Jalkanen" <Janne.Jalkanen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Proposal:  The <content> element of <entry> should support a
>> src="..."  attribute.  The value of this attribute is a URL, which
>> points at a location where the actual data for the content may be
>> found.  If a content element has a src attribute, it MUST NOT have
>> inline content; conceptually, the data at the URL provides the
>> complete data for the entry.
>> 
> +1
>
> This would work well if multipart is seen as evil enough.  It would not
> allow for uploading the metadata together with the binary object,

anything wrong with multipart HTTP with a @src="cid:part2";?

multipart only insofar as uploading both the metadata and the binary at the
same time, not multipart in the sense of a blog posting with multiple
images. Which is not to say there would only be two parts: perhaps the atom
entry has a <content src="cid:part1"; /> and a <summary src="cid:thumbnail";
/>?

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