- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:22:21 -0400
- To: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Cc: ietf-xml-mime@imc.org, ian@w3.org, xml-encryption@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:18:37AM -0400, Joseph Reagle wrote: > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 18:26, Joseph Reagle wrote: > > @@ Should we include a redundant type parameter of the encrypted > > object? @@ I believe that this is more than a good idea, it's a necessity. Moreover, it should also be a required parameter. The reason I say this is because an xml-enc intermediary may want to encrypt some HTML that arrived as text/plain. If it just gets encrypted, relabelled as application/xenc+xml, and then forwarded on, the fact that it was "text/plain" is now lost (it's not redundant), and the next intermediary to process it must guess the encapsulated content type. MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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