Re: store binary

[Michael Schwartz <mike@gluu.org>]

Yuriy,

Great news! This closes the discussion then on binary value XDI syntax.

- Mike



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Michael Schwartz
Gluu
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Yuriy Zabrovarnyy wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> After our last discussion about binaries i've looked at data uri scheme (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme) and think that you are right.
> We can use it to store binaries and specify exact mediatype for it.
> According to this http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397.
>
>       dataurl    := "data:" [ mediatype ] [ ";base64" ] "," data
>       mediatype  := [ type "/" subtype ] *( ";" parameter )
>       data       := *urlchar
>       parameter  := attribute "=" value
>
> In ldap besides additional attribute (literalBinaryValue) we also need:
>
>   - attribute to store type of binary, mediaType
>   - attribute to indicate base64
>
> Yuriy Z