[MOBY-dev] data by reference - a request for comments

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:28:43 -0700, Pieter Neerincx  
<pieter.neerincx at gmail.com> wrote:



> If you want to replace this with a reference the actual data would still  
> have to be a base64 encoded piece of text. So you can not make a  
> reference to an image that exists as a plain JPEG, GIF, etc. on a web  
> server.

Martin and I discussed this while he was here and the behaviour of this  
case will be part of his RFC proposal.  It seems to me that it would be  
silly to b64 encode something that is being passed by reference...  but I  
agree that to do anything else is a 'hack'.  Nevertheless, there are a lot  
of 'hacks' in Moby, and this one is one of the more sensible 'hacks' IMO...

M



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Mark D Wilkinson, PI Bioinformatics
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The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research
Providence Heart + Lung Institute
University of British Columbia - St. Paul's Hospital
Vancouver, BC, Canada