Re: [galeon] MIME type discussion background

• To: "Eizi TOYODA" <toyoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [galeon] MIME type discussion background
• From: "Ben Domenico" <Ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:27:48 -0600

Eizi,

The idea of using the MIME parameters is a new one and I don't think anyone has 
thought through the details yet.  In particular, I too am confused by the 
introduction of yet another way to pass parameters.  However, the need for a 
mime type to characterize the CF-netCDF encoding extension to WCS is well 
established.

For now, I agree with you that the important thing is to start the process of 
deciding on and establishing what that should be.  Your suggestion seems to be 
a sound one to me.  We can start with application/x-cf-netcdf and apply for 
official registration of application/cf-netcdf.  But, of course, the opinion of 
the CF community is the deciding factor.

-- Ben

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Eizi TOYODA <toyoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Ben,

Firstly, thank you very much for quoting.

However, to be honest, I don't get the point because of ambiguity:
Are the MIME parameters used for data format?
Or MIME parameters indicate the same thing what KVP is used for?

Either makes sense but I don't think "it is how most of the web
negotiates formats".
In HTTP a client indicates a list of acceptable media types,
and the server choses the best one according to priority (q parameter)
given by the client.

For example,  a HTTP request shown below means "The best is HTML or
XHTML, XML is fine.
Give me anything if nothing above is available."

   GET /path/progname.cgi?key=value&key2=value2 HTTP/1.1
   Host: server.domain
   Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

That is negotiation.

Anyway, it is very good to know the proposal doesn't care whether the
MIME type is a registered with IANA.
Why don't we start with something like application/x-cf-netcdf or
parameterized counterpart?

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