Re: [webfinger] feedback for multiple "rel"

On 22 December 2012 17:12, nov matake <matake@gmail.com> wrote:

> BTW, why double encoding lead "problems with things like canonical urls
> and search engines"?
> Can you provide more details?
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Not easily, no.  You could perhaps ignore that comment.

However I've had situations where I've had to escape delimiters to create a
URL in the past.  It leads to the question of whether the escaped character
should be part of the canonical url.  Maybe it was just me, but I found it
a bit fiddly...

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> If 2 rel included, the response would be different than when only 1 rel
> given.
> So I feel those 2 are not the same, and can be indexed as 2 resources..
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> On 2012/12/23, at 0:44, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 22 December 2012 05:48, nov matake <matake@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a comment for they way to specify multiple "rel" values.
>>
>> As a ruby library developer, my main target is rails developers.
>> Since rails can't handle multiple same query keys, developers will need
>> to hack query params parser in rails middleware layer.
>> I can easily imagine it'll be an annoying part to support webfinger in
>> rails.
>>
>> Is the multiple "rel" case can be a space-delimitered (or some other
>> character) strings like multiple redirect_uri in OAuth2?
>> Or any reason for putting multiple same keys in query parameters?
>>
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> each time you delimit a list, you have to be able to escape the delimiter,
> which can be a pain and also leads to problems with things like canonical
> urls and search engines
>
> can you use mod_rewrite?
>
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>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nov Matake
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