[ticker-dev] Why Attachment field as byte array?

[Ian Lister]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, David Arnold wrote:
>-->"j" == j  <j at pobox.com> writes:
>  j> Given that MIME is intended to support sending binary information
>  j> as text, is there any reason I am missing why the Attachment
>  j> filed should not be defined as being a string?
>
>this was the hardest choice.

[snipped pros and cons]

What about allowing it to be either an opaque or a string (but still
forbidding any encodings that aren't currently allowed)? That way simple
stuff can still be dealt with simply, and is available to be routed on.

Ian