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Re: [apps-discuss] URI templates in Link header fields

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 30 August 2016 17:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] URI templates in Link header fields
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> On 30 Aug 2016, at 2:35 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-08-29 17:30, Erik Wilde wrote:
>> hello julian
>> 
>> On 2016-08-29 01:42, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> In the meantime, I heard of a few cases where people were trying to use
>>> templates in Link header fields (an obvious thing to do), and came up
>>> with hacks to do so with the existing Link header field.
>>> I'm tempted to work on a small spec that defines an experimental new
>>> header field, similar to Link but allowing templates.
>> 
>> @mnot has been working on collecting ideas for an update to RFC 5988 for
>> a while now. maybe that's one more motivation to go forward with this?
>> i'd certainly be willing to put in some time to get it off the ground.
>> 
>> https://github.com/mnot/I-D/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Arfc5988bis
> 
> Yep, I'm aware of that...
> 
>>> Is anybody aware of existing code trying to use templates in Link header
>>> fields? If so, please report over here (or in doubt send private email).
>> 
>> this is not really code, but people want to use URI templates and there
>> have been some efforts to provide a context that makes that more easy:
>> 
>> - @mnot's https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-link-hint
>> 
>> - my own https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-link-desc
>> 
>> - part of the JSON home model:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-json-home#section-3.1
>> 
>> if i recall correctly all of these have slightly different use cases and
>> models, but (unsurprisingly) also a lot of overlap. it would be great to
>> consolidate all of this so that tooling and implementations can rely on
>> a robust spec.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback, Julian
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