Re: [httpapi] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-link-template-03.txt

On 1 Sep 2021, at 10:39 pm, Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:
> 
> Why not use structured fields for this?  As far as I can see, that just means <> becomes "", but the practical benefits seem to outweigh a small cosmetic consistency.

Good q. I think it should definitely be considered. This is currently following the Link syntax because a) it was written before SF, and b) Someone who's familiar with Link is going to wonder why. I doubt (b) is good enough.

It does beg the question of whether there should be a SF variant of Link. See also <https://mnot.github.io/I-D/binary-structured-headers/#links>.

> (Like Julian, var-base seems ... challenging.  I found the description of it hard to follow, but it seemed like the order of resolving against base URIs was unexpected.)

Yeah, that's only half-baked; needs more thought (and as Julian points out, examples).

Cheers,

> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, at 15:36, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've had this spec on the back burner for a *long* time, because I 
>> wanted to make sure it was actually useful to someone before 
>> progressing it.
>> 
>> I've heard from a few people that it would be useful for them in the 
>> real world, so I'd like the WG to consider adoption.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>> *From: *internet-drafts@ietf.org
>>> *Subject: **New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-link-template-03.txt*
>>> *Date: *1 September 2021 at 3:35:21 pm AEST
>>> *To: *"Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A new version of I-D, draft-nottingham-link-template-03.txt
>>> has been successfully submitted by Mark Nottingham and posted to the
>>> IETF repository.
>>> 
>>> Name: draft-nottingham-link-template
>>> Revision: 03
>>> Title: The Link-Template HTTP Header Field
>>> Document date: 2021-09-01
>>> Group: Individual Submission
>>> Pages: 5
>>> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nottingham-link-template-03.txt
>>> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-link-template/
>>> Html:           https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nottingham-link-template-03.html
>>> Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nottingham-link-template
>>> Diff:           https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-nottingham-link-template-03
>>> 
>>> Abstract:
>>>  This specification defines the Link-Template HTTP header field,
>>>  providing a means for describing the structure of a link between two
>>>  resources, so that new links can be generated.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The IETF Secretariat
>>> 
>>> 
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