- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:35:17 +0200
- To: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
- CC: Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@gmail.com>, general discussion of application-layer protocols <discuss@apps.ietf.org>, Applications Review List <apps-review@ietf.org>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Dave Cridland wrote:
> ...
> 11) Section 4.2.17: Does that "type" attribute totally suck? Of course,
> you have to have it because every man, his dog, and his pet hampster has
> decided that only HTTP is allowed, these days, for absolutely
> everything, leading to a totally useless URI scheme which essentially
> fails to describe the actual resource it's supposedly a locator for.
> Okay, rant over, back to the review.
> ...
"4.2.17. The "metalink:url" Element
The "metalink:url" element contains the IRI of a file. All IRIs
should lead to identical files, except in the case of type
"bittorrent" where the IRI should lead to a .torrent file."
Actually, don't do that. Don't make the meaning of an element totally
dependent on an attribute on it. If torrent files are a special case
(can there be more...?), then define a separate element.
BR, Julian
Received on Tuesday, 2 September 2008 09:36:00 UTC