Re: [XHR] Content-Length header for data: URLs

On 9/19/13 11:39 PM, Julian Aubourg wrote:
> We need to check the encoding

You mean the base64 or lack thereof?

> we need to make sure we
> know how to determine the actual length for this encoding

For base64 you do.  Otherwise, it's a malformed data URI.

> we need a way
> to not store length if we dunno the encoding

In what situation would this ever happen?

> What I'm seeing here is that being able to have a Content-Length or not
> seems implementation dependent.

No more so than having a Content-Type, as far as I can see.

> I'm pretty sure we cannot assume all implementations will be able to
> provide a Content-Length.

I'm pretty sure we can in fact assume just that.

> So it seems like we should just keep
> prohibiting Content-Length.

If it were useless to provide it, I might agree.  But it's useful.  This 
is why blob URIs go out of their way to provide it...

-Boris

Received on Friday, 20 September 2013 03:55:46 UTC