Re: [PATCH] gitweb: suggest name for OPML view

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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>
>> Suggest opml.xml as name for OPML view by providing the appropriate
>> header, consistently with similar usage in project_index view.
>
> It is not name for a view, but more of default filename when saving
> it. While it is good idea to have consistency, I guess that while
> 'project_index' view and other non-HTML views are meant to be
> downloaded and saved (snapshots, patches, patchsets), OPML view
> is meant to be used on-line, just like web feeds in RSS and Atom
> formats which are non-HTML too but do not have Content-Disposition
> header set.

OPML is used for import/export of RSS feed lists between aggregators
(e.g. moving your reading list from knewsreader to google reader). As
such, it can also be comfortable to save it to disk for import by some
tools. IMO, of course. And there's also the consistency thing, and not
actual reason _not_ to offer the filename, since it comes pretty
cheap.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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