BINARY support (Was: site monitoring)

[Douglas Tody]

Markus -

My impression has been that implementation of binary streams in VOTable
software is spotty and that the feature is rarely used.  However I don't
have any hard data on the issue.  Perhaps others can comment if they
have tried to use this feature or encountered such data.

 	- Doug


On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Markus Demleitner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 03:39:01PM -0600, Douglas Tody wrote:
>>> We changed to using the STREAM/BINARY encoding in the VOTables used
>>> in our TAP interface (suggested by Mark) and so far this seems to
>>> be satisfying our security types.  [I don't want to get into a
>>> discussion of what should or should not trigger such flags.]
>>
>> Since probably few clients will be able to handle such as response this
>> is probably not the best solution, although technically legal I guess.
>> It would be better to address the real problem (smarter security
>> checking) as someone else suggested.
>
> Although I agree that all this has nothing to do with security in any
> sense of the word: Doug, do you suggest that client support for
> VOTables with binary streams is rare?
>
> Since I'm delivering binary VOTables by default that would be
> worrying for me (plus, I'm only aware of missing binary support in
> old versions of VOPlot and now specview).  Before I start checking
> libraries and clients myself: Does anyone already have an idea what
> clients or libraries don't support binary VOTables yet?
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Markus
>