On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:34:19AM -0400, Damien Katz wrote: > I'm leery about having the server emit newlines, when payloads are signed > little things like that can cause headaches.
What do you mean by "signed" in this context? This proposal could go two ways: * CouchDB consistently omits the trailing newline from text files * CouchDB consistently adds the trailing newline to text files Where "file" is a reference to the HTTP response entity-body with a media type of application/json, which is in turn a text based format. Assuming you're talking about cryptographic signing, neither of these scenarios affect that because the output format will be entirely consistent. As I mentioned in my last email, I have outlined some concrete upsides of the trailing newline but no one has come forward with a concrete downside. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/
