Re: [webfinger] feedback for multiple "rel"

[Melvin Carvalho <[e-mail]>]

On 22 December 2012 05:48, nov matake <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 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?
>

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?


>
> Cheers,
>
> Nov Matake
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