On 07/02/2009, at 11:40 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
On Feb 6, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
On 2/6/09 11:03 AM, "Roy T. Fielding" <field...@gbiv.com> wrote:
There are many resources involved in HTTP,
only one of which is identified by the requested URI. Each of those
resources may have representations, and the meaning of the payload
in a
response message is defined by the status code. A 404 response is
going
to contain a representation of a resource on the server that
describes
that error. A 200 response is going to contain a representation of
the
resource that was identified as the request target.
What this means is that a Link header in the HTTP response to a GET
request
might not be about the resource identified by the URI used to make
that
request.
The Link header field defines what it is about: [RFC2068]
The Link entity-header field provides a means for describing a
relationship between two resources, generally between the requested
resource and some other resource.
It says "requested resource" there for a reason. It seems that has
been muddled a bit in Mark's draft, probably because you guys have had
too many discussions about what it could mean.
Yes; this should be better in -04 (which is waiting for the IPR
contributions clarification).
If you think it would be helpful to distinguish the Link header
field (resource metadata) from a Content-Link header field
(representation metadata), then that is a separate discussion.
....Roy
--
Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
