I agree with Luke that HTTP standard has everything necessary and bloating
payload with json/xml is not necessary.

Btw that argument "we have json in client already" seems pretty wrong,
because json in server rpc solves another problem (and solve it in wrong
way, because of data type issues, but it's another story).

slush

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Jordan Mack <jordanmack@parhelic.com>wrote:

> I thought that JSON support was fairly common these days. I personally
> prefer XML in most cases, but since JSON is already used with the RPC,
> it seemed like a natural fit here. Binary data can be base64 encoded,
> although I'm not sure why you would need to send back binary in an alias
> response.
>