Re: [Netconf] Opinion poll on RESTCONF encoding

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Thu, 27 August 2015 05:27 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [Netconf] Opinion poll on RESTCONF encoding
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 01:37:30AM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote:
> 
>   If no Accept header is present, or if none of the passed Accept
>   header media types are supported for the given resource, the
>   RESTCONF server MUST generate a payload containing a list of
>   available representation characteristics and corresponding
>   resource identifiers from which the user or user agent can
>   choose the one most appropriate.
> 
> This is slightly stricter than the wording in RFC 7231, Section 6.5.6.
>

-1 (since I do not think this is how HTTP generally works)

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