Re: Propsed new issue: variability of encoding in Miffy

+1, although I don't think (a) is necessary.


On Jan 13, 2004, at 6:36 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> I really want to maximize interop of the HTTP bindings, and
> minimized the code that's required to achieve such interop.  Since 
> HTTP is
> binary-clean in any case, allowing variability there would just require
> extra code in conforming implementations, more interop testing, etc.  
> In
> practice, I would expect interop to be reduced.  So, I would either
> disallow variability everywhere, or allow choice of binary, not text,
> representations in Miffy and (a) state in Miffy that each application 
> of
> Miffy must specify the allowed encodings allowed and (b) allow only 
> binary
> in the http binding.