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Re: Link relation types for non-GET links

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 13 August 2015 12:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: Link relation types for non-GET links
To: Klaus Hartke <hartke@tzi.org>, mike amundsen <mamund@yahoo.com>
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On 2015-08-13 14:03, Klaus Hartke wrote:
> Mike Amundsen wrote:
>> the IANA reg'd values "edit" and "edit-media" support unsafe (non-GET)
>> actions and are documented in RFC5023[1].
>
> So, is that the preferred way of doing things? Would it make sense to
> register a bunch of generic non-GET link relation types, like
> "create", "execute", "update", "delete"?
>
> It seems the syntax for links in RFC5988 and HAL needs to be extended
> for non-GET links to include a description of the representation that
> the service accepts when following the link (e.g., accepted media type
> and/or a set of form fields).
>
> How does a spider distinguish between safe links and unsafe non-GET links?

A spider is not supposed to use methods other than GET, so how is this a 
problem?

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