>>>>> "BC" == Benjamin Coates <coates at windmail.net> writes:
BC> Content-Type is how the client decides which viewer to pass
BC> the data on to. Clients are unlikely to do anything at all
BC> with things like "Description" or "Publisher" or "Title".
BC> This is the sort of thing that would be useful *before* you
BC> download the CHK, like in an index or something, but putting
BC> it into the CHK itself means you have to download the whole
BC> file to get the subject (for example).
This is a fair point, but one of the principles that has been espoused
here is that you -shouldn't- be able to get metadata about a data item
without actually fetching the entire data item, since that makes
certain kinds of attacks easier.
~Mr. Bad
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