There is more than just the mime type when dealing with the URLs. There at least two content headers of interest, Content-Type and Content-Disposition. Whatever mechanism involved should allow for both of these content headers to be set by the web application.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> > wrote: > >> > Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I'm curious why URN > is > >> > not > >> > a property of Blob. It seems like it would be useful to be able to > load > >> > a > >> > slice of a File. For example, this could be used by an application to > >> > fetch > >> > all of its subresources out of a single file. > >> > >> IIRC originally it was placed on File since Blobs do not have a > >> content type. However I think there is general agreement that it > >> should be moved to Blob. > >> > >> However it would be great to be able to assign a content type to a > >> Blob. Possibly slice() could take a optional argument. > >> > > > > Adding an optional parameter to slice() sounds attractive indeed. > > BlobBuilder [1] should probably also have such an optional argument. > > Indeed! > > / Jonas > >