Re: [Plastic-devs] Temporary files and IDs for loadFromURL

[Noel W. <Noe...@ma...>]

On 17 Jul 2006, at 17:04, John Taylor wrote:

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> Mark Taylor wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, R Holbrey wrote:
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>>> Doesn't "load" have a second arg anyway? This seems to be the  
>>> main difference between two. Help, I'm still confused about this  
>>> one..
>>>
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>> the main difference is that in "loadFromURL" you pass the URL.
>> In "load" the text of the votable is sent as the content of the  
>> first argument.  Not very scalable, admittedly.
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> FWIW I think this is actually used in the Workbench though...in  
> fact it looks as though they might appreciate a similar "in-line"  
> version of the "load fits" message.  Noel: is this for sending data  
> that comes back by value from a CEA app?
>

yep. that's it - data is already in memory, and if it's got that far  
it's obviously not tooo big.


> John
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