Re: [FileAPI] Blob.URN?

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 <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Darin Fisher <darin@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
>
>