- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:12:48 -0800
- To: nathan@webr3.org
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Feb 1, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Nathan wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> On 12.10.2010 01:02, Nathan wrote: >>> I'm looking for a quick bit of guidance on whether the Link header would >>> class as representation metadata >> The Link header spec says "entity header", which is the terminology we used in HTTPbis until draft 10; so I think it's supposed to fall into the same class as "Content-Language", for example. > > Sorry but I need to come back to this one, can I get a definitive answer (please :)) on whether the Link header is representation metadata (like Content-Type), or not? It is sometimes metadata. Some of those times it is representation metadata, like Content-Type, whereas in other times it can be resource metadata, like Vary. And occasionally it is just part of the representation, though that tends to confuse people who think data == body and headers == meta. What the link is for depends entirely on the rel value. ....Roy
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