Re: [webfinger] feedback for multiple "rel"

BTW, why double encoding lead "problems with things like canonical urls and search engines"?
Can you provide more details?

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..

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:
> 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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