Re: Support for binary encodings and MIME types

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 18:40:42 +0100

Guy Rixon wrote:
> my understanding is that most VOTable libraries still only support
> TABLEDATA encoding of the table and not FITS or BINARY.

Yes...

> Therefore, it's not robust to send, e.g., a VOTABLE/BINARY document to
> an arbitrary comsumer.

Unfortunately, yes...

> If we have to be careful about which encodings we sent to which
> consumers, then it may be necessary to distinguish the encodings in
> the MIME type. E.g., we might need application/xml+votable-tabledata
> and application/xml+votable-binary.

Yuck!

> Comments?

Ugly...

Al. Received on 2005-09-07Z19:41:32