On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:15:53AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
> >o I never use extended attributes myself. Is 'user.curl.origin' something
> > everyone is likely to be happy with or should we allow it to be changable?
>
> BTW, I thought of two other things:
>
> 1 - I noticed your patch sent to the wget team for this same
> feature. Wouldn't it make sense to use the same name for the URL no
> matter which tool that downloaded it? It would make it easier for
> scripts/tools to extract the info.
>
There is a Free Desktop specification
<http://freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes>. Some atributes are
in use (user.mime_type, user.encoding), some are just a propose. Please use
that identifiers instead of some curl-specific.

-- Petr

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