Dave Cridland wrote: > On Mon Mar 16 14:43:38 2009, Andreas Monitzer wrote: >> On Mar 16, 2009, at 13:09, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> >>> Yes, maybe restrict the usage to a stanza and not allow it inside a >>> stanza by default. So a client MAY send any return from any XEP >>> out of >>> band, but only the whole result. If out of band is allowed >>> somewehere >>> deep inside a stanza it SHOULD be added to the XEP defining that >>> namespace. >> >> That's not a good idea, since then you couldn't use it for binary >> data at all (since you never have base64-encoded data at the top >> level). Having it only in specific stanzas would mean that you >> couldn't implement a solution for everything, but only on a >> case-by-case basis (or you'd have to carry around a list of >> situations where it's allowed – ugh). > > Bob... XEP-0231 > > Bob already defines a mechanism for referencing blobs. This provides > an alternative transport for them.
Yes, reading bob gave me the idea :) I want to add a section to describe how this can interact with bob. > What this won't allow is for huge XML blobs to be referenced within > stanzas, but I can't think of a single use case for that - perhaps I'm > being naïve, but I think Bob and this between them are an interesting > concept. I thought about using bob's cid for the content, but the use case is different. For bob I request the stuff later, in my idea it comes by itself. No need for a constant id like bob. Dirk -- An aquarium is just interactive television for cats.
