Proper content-type for .jsonl

[brianorwhatever]

Continuing discussions from #41 I think we need to specify something.

When I upload it to a browser it says it's application/octet-stream.

There doesn't appear to be a consensus in wardi/jsonlines#19

The proposal there is application/jsonl which I think looks like a typo..

Another proposal in there (amazon uses) is application/jsonlines which seems pretty good to me other than not being in IANA

[swcurran]

We could help the JSON Lines folks write a draft spec so that our draft spec would be complete and so that we can make an IANA submission. Turtles all the way down…

I think we go with application/jsonlines, but I’m not the expert in this area. It just feels right...

[swcurran]

Andrew has found that text/jsonl is the right thing to use:

I updated the demo DID on anywhy.ca, and set the mime type for jsonl to 'text/jsonl' as that helps it render properly in a browser (apparently that's what Shopify uses)

[brianorwhatever]

@andrew is it application/jsonl or text/jsonl? The jsonl website recommends application. I see some talk from shopify stuff but can’t find this. Will test with my shopify account when I get a chance

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[PatStLouis]

I was looking into this as well, I also landed on application/octet-stream as there is no registered MIME type for jsonlines. Is there documentation about text/jsonl?

[swcurran]

All -- we need to nail this down. Someone be bold here :-) . Once decided, clarification to the specification.

[PatStLouis]

I think regardless of the decision we use in the spec, it's not an official media type. I have settled for text/jsonl in the tdw server. This can easily be changed.

[andrewwhitehead]

I still like text/jsonl. As the MDN web docs describe the text type:

Text-only data including any human-readable content, source code, or textual data such as comma-separated value (CSV) formatted data. Examples include: text/plain, text/csv, and text/html.

It also has the benefit that you can specify the charset parameter as utf-8.

[brianorwhatever]

I think we have consensus on text/jsonl