[JDEV] MIME-Version

[Patrick McCuller]

	Aaron is 100% right on this one.  Have you looked at MIME-enabled
libraries? Java's javax.mail.internet package is tied closely enough to
RFC822 style email messages that it would be a hack at best to even use it
to parse our half-kosher style.

	It doesn't really make MIME easier to use, just different.

	JabberBeans will have to write its own MIMEish modules, yay.


Patrick


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> Scott Robinson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 11:30 AM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] MIME-Version
>
>
> It is just a matter of placement. If we use the wrapping <mime/>
> tags, then
> the developer of a client using MIME not only doesn't have to worry about
> writing extra (albiet miniscule) code to grab the lines, and they
> also don't
> (a bit nicer) have to worry about the unique boundaries. In
> general, it just
> saves time and makes MIME easier to use.
>
> Scott.
>
> * arh14 at cornell.edu translated into ASCII [Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at
> 10:58:11AM
> -0400][<Pine.SOL.3.91.990811105628.23671M-100000 at travelers.mail.co
> rnell.edu>]
> >
> > What is more efficient than constructing a MIME message from
> XML, is just
> > taking the preconstructed MIME message.  Why separate out the headers,
> > stick them in the tag, and then have the client take them back
> out of the
> > tag and construct the message??
> >
> > MIME is just a chunk of text.  Let the client deal with it.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Scott Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > It isn't "outside" the MIME body. We're not dealing with straight MIME
> > > because (one of the reasons) it would be more efficient to
> place it straight
> > > into the <mime/> tag. The <mime/> tag is part of the body,
> and can be easily
> > > constructed into a proper MIME message (for those that want
> it) with the
> > > rest of the message/jabber.
> > >
> > > Scott.
> > >
> > > * Dave Smith translated into ASCII [Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at
> 09:37:30AM -0500][<NDBBJJODKKLCELCEPIEMIEDHCAAA.dave at dorm4.org>]
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm assuming, then, that just sticking the MIME chunk in
> the <mime> tag
> > > > > isn't going to be done?  Why use XML attributes for MIME
> headers when you
> > > > > can just put the MIME headers in the MIME chunk??  MIME
> already contains
> > > > > all it needs to describe itself.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hmm...this is a good question. Why in the world does the
> manipulator(client,
> > > > transport, whatever) have to be able to access the MIME
> attributes outside
> > > > of the MIME body? Isn't the whole idea of MIME to be
> self-describing?
> > > > <raised eyebrow>
> > > >
> > > > D.
> > > >
> > > >
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