RE: [FileAPI] Length of the opaque string for blob URLs

On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 3:38 AM, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Adrian Bateman wrote:
> 
> > The current spec requires the opaque string in Blob URLs to be at least
> > 36 characters in length [1]. Our implementation doesn't currently use a
> > UUID and the length of the string is shorter than 36 characters. While
> > I have no problem with the recommendation to use UUIDs in the spec,
> > since it isn't a MUST I wonder whether the length requirement needs to
> > be a MUST. Could we relax this requirement?
> 
> Just out of interest, what was the rationale for the minimum of 36 chars?

I'm guessing it's because of the length of a typically serialised UUID.

Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 16:33:32 UTC