- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 17:39:05 +0200
- To: Phil Archer <parcher@icra.org>, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, 'Mark Nottingham' <mnot@mnot.net>, 'atom-syntax Syntax' <atom-syntax@imc.org>, 'HTTP Working Group' <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote: > ... > How about: > > Generic-Link: URL=value > > Which is required to be written in exactly that form, the URN denotes > the relation type, and the URN is always unquoted, absolute, and in > a canonical form. > > It seems to satisfy the same easy parsing and substitution > requirements that motivate foo-Link, while providing the flexibility > of URNs for unregistered relation types. > ... What I'm missing a bit in this discussion is the fact that the Link header already is specified, deployed and supported by some UAs (such as Firefox (*) and Opera AFAIK). Thus I'd really prefer to *extend* it in a backwards-compatible way (as proposed by Mark N.) instead of inventing something new. BR, Julian (*) for instance: <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Link_prefetching_FAQ>
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