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Re: Atom Content Negotiation (follow-up)

Hadrien Gardeur <hadrien.gardeur@feedbooks.com> Tue, 03 May 2011 14:14 UTC

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From: Hadrien Gardeur <hadrien.gardeur@feedbooks.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 16:05:55 +0200
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Subject: Re: Atom Content Negotiation (follow-up)
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>
> philosophically, i agree. the question i am asking myself is how likely it
> is that this is actually going to happen. it might require a rewrite of the
> media type specification, and a rewrite of how content negotiation in HTTP
> interacts with that updated media type model. is that something that is
> likely to happen, in the mid term or at all?


Sure, it's not likely at all to happen in the mid term, but with media
parameters you're not "breaking" anything either. If we want those
specifications to evolve, we need more examples and people interested in
those parameters. The AtomPub spec with its "type" parameter for Atom is a
good start but we need to go further.

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