Re: Re: Are enclosures downloaded or linked?

The spec itself doesn't say that, but it links to a "use-case narrative" 
that more or less says so (see http://www.thetwowayweb.com/payloadsforrss).

My interpretation is that an enclosure links to something that is probably 
fairly large and that an RSS reader might potentially want to download in 
advance. There's no requirement that an RSS reader MUST prefetch enclosures, 
but it can definitely be advantageous to have that as an option.

Regards
James

Randy Morin wrote:
> Where in the original spec does it say this?
> Thanks,
>
> Randy
> http://www.therssweblog.com
>
> --- In [email protected], "Lucas Gonze" <lucas.gonze@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> The purpose of an enclosure is defined in the original spec to be
>> prefetching, meaning downloading.


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