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Re: Atom Content Negotiation (follow-up)

Hadrien Gardeur <hadrien.gardeur@feedbooks.com> Mon, 02 May 2011 16:24 UTC

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From: Hadrien Gardeur <hadrien.gardeur@feedbooks.com>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 18:18:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: Atom Content Negotiation (follow-up)
To: James Holderness <j4_james@hotmail.com>
Cc: dret@berkeley.edu, atom-syntax@imc.org
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>
> If the content-type for Atom doesn't sufficiently distinguish between the
> types of feed you want to serve for HTTP content negotiation to work, it
> seems to me you should be looking at ways to extend the content-type (like
> the type parameter that was proposed to distinguish between Atom entry
> documents and Atom feed documents). Inventing a new form of content
> negotiation that requires parsing links from the top of an Atom feed is just
> twisted.
>

+1. Media parameters are not sufficiently well defined yet, but I believe
that this is the right solution to this problem.

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