Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #34 (service): should we include a raw tzdb format media type?

[Tim Parenti <[e-mail]>]

On 8 January 2015 at 13:34, Ken Murchison <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 01/08/2015 01:21 PM, Tim Parenti wrote:
>
>>
>> That said, if a user requests a TZ binary file for a zone identifier
>> which is simply an alias, such as US/Eastern, I think it would be perfectly
>> reasonable for the server to return the corresponding file for the linked
>> zone — in this case, America/New_York. Whether the response should also
>> include some note about the "canonical" zone name, I'm not sure.
>>
>
>
> For iCalendar data we note the "canonical" zone name by including a
> TZID-ALIAS-OF property in the data.
>
> I'd have to look at RFC7231 to see if this is sane/legal, but an option
> for indicating the "canonical" zone name when fetching binary data for a
> linked zone might be to include a Content-Location response header with the
> URL to the "canonical" zone.
>
> Another option would be to redirect a request for a linked zone (with the
> appropriate 3xx response code) to the "canonical" zone.


I think that any of these solutions could be acceptable.  I'm not familiar
enough with the intricacies of each to prefer one over the others at this
point.

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Tim Parenti