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Re: Atom Content Negotiation

Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu> Tue, 17 May 2011 18:59 UTC

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hello mo.

thanks for the email.

On 2011-05-17 11:50 , Mo McRoberts wrote:
> I've only been half-following this debate, but it strikes me that there's perhaps a certain degree of crossover with the HTTP “Alternates” header:
> http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/conneg/draft-ietf-http-alternates-00.html

not really. this addresses the question of resources being available in 
alternate media types. the main problem in the suggestion i was making 
is that everything is always packaged in atom XML, so the media type 
from an HTTP point of view is always atom. think of it as the equivalent 
of how to communicate that you have a web page with flash animations, 
and one with animated GIFs. both are using the HTML media type, but 
something inside of them is different, and afaik, there is no generic 
web/HTTP way how to communicate this (i.e., being able to say: over 
there, there's an equivalent web page, but it has flash in it).

cheers,

dret.

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