[rabbitmq-discuss] Patch for letting the STOMP consumers receive the content-type header

Mon Aug 11 18:11:33 BST 2008

Hello Tony,

Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
[...]
>> We should also consider the use of ActiveMQ "type" header instead of 
>> using "content-type", or maybe translate between the two?  take a 
>> look at http://activemq.apache.org/stomp.html (do a search for JMSType).
>
> I think they're different - does JMSType always line up exactly with 
> MIME content-type? Certainly in AMQP, there's an equivalent of the 
> JMSType field which is otherwise undocumented, and is distinct from 
> the content-type header. (The JMS mappings in 0-8 and 0-9 are a bit of 
> a mess.)
I never used JMS, so I'm afraid I don't known the answer; but having 
seen the "type" header in AMQP specs (even though, like you said, they 
are not really defined), I'm OK with just having an "content-type" 
header as a MIME type.

Best regards,
Rui Lopes