Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] RE: [pushlet] Digest Number 267

[Asynch M. <asy...@ho...>]

> > > We also support a variety of non-JavaScript clients, from Python to
> > > Perl to PHP, and Java and Ruby and C.  For these clients we have a
> > > simpler data format that doesn't require JavaScript or HTML parsing.
> > Since 1.0 Pushlets support the "format" parameter where on subscription
> > the client can indicate the data encoding to be received. Supported
> > formats are "js" (JavaScript, default), "xml" and "ser" (serialized Java
> > objects). So a client may even use telnet to receive XML events.
>
> That's really cool.  Ours is called kn_response_format and the formats
> we support presently are "js" (JavaScript, default), "simple" (header
> value pairs in RFC822-like format), and "flash" (Flash, only supported
> in the Python version of our PubSub Server).
Is the 'js' format really HTML + JS?


You know, there are IANA registered mime types for those.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/

And HTTP request headers for requesting them too.
 Accept: text/javascript; text/ecmascript; text/xml; message/rfc822;
application/x-java-serialized-object;

Apparently text/javascript; text/ecmascript;  are not yet registered.
http://www.websitedev.de/ietf/draft-hoehrmann-script-types-00.txt