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Re: rel="shortlink" proposal for advertising short URLs in HTML/HTTP

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Wed, 22 April 2009 21:33 UTC

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:55:21 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
Subject: Re: rel="shortlink" proposal for advertising short URLs in HTML/HTTP
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:44:41PM -0400, Barry Leiba wrote:
> > Is any of this specific to short links or does it apply across the
> > board? I would suggest the latter.
> 
> It does, but the connection to short links is that if a page offers a
> "short link" (or a client asks for one), there probably has to be some
> way to communicate the scope.  Otherwise, the client or user won't
> know what to rely on the short link for.

Arguably the scope should be the same as for the long link.

Nico
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