Edgar Friendly <thelema at cs-mercury.truman.edu> writes:

> > But for the first alternative, accessing CHK at xyz directly will not
> > give you a proper MIME type, [...]

> If this is the case, fproxy (or whatever client you're using) needs to
> be fixed.

How is fproxy going to whip up the MIME type from thin air?

> > Do we really need to work around these insertion mistakes? In a way
> > it's /not/ the same data if it has a different MIME type.

> But there's no reason to hold two copies of a large CHK if the only
> thing that differs is the MIME type.

Did I say there was? But deprecating metadata on CHKs is not the only
solution to this common(?) mistake. I'd rather see insert clients give
users more guidance about the MIME type.

-- 
Robbe
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