Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] mime (http integration)

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Allister Levi Sanchez
<all...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Dean Michael C. Berris
> <dmb...@fr...> wrote:
>>
>> This time I think we may have to move the mime processing code outside
>> of boost/network/protocol and just move it into boost/network/utils or
>> something similar. A lot of the URI parsing stuff can also be moved out
>> of boost/network/protocol/http and into its own component into
>> boost/network/utils.
>
> Hmmm, isn't MIME itself a protocol
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Application_layer_protocols)?
>

Oh, right. :D

My bad. :)

> And speaking of utils, the message encoding/decoding (such as to/from base64
> that you have in http) could also be added there, right?
>

Yes, Base64 encoding (not yet implemented) will have to go into utils.

>>
>> I'll think more about it before making any changes/moves.
>>
>> It would also be a good idea to branch off for MIME development
>> (mime_integration) perhaps.
>>
>> More about it as my brain starts picking up. ;)
>
> Yes, maybe branching off for MIME would be a good idea -- once we've decided
> where to put it hehe...
>

I think you're correct with putting mime into protocol/ -- I imagine
it would need to be split up to multiple files and in its own
directory protocol/mime/ aside from just protocol/mime.hpp ?

-- 
Dean Michael C. Berris
Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc.