Re: Question about the On Linking Alternative Representations TAG Finding

Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
>
> On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote:
>>>
>> I think serving the JSON is the best option.  Serving HTML from 
>> /resource.json would defeat the purpose of having a JSON-specific 
>> URI.   It is quite likely that the user pasted the JSON URI into a 
>> browser to test it, and *wants* to see the JSON that is returned.  
>> Everyone knows how to paste a URI into a browser; few know how to 
>> configure their browsers to specify their desired MIME types.
>
> I don't see how the best option is to ignore the accept header. If the 
> accept header says to accept only html then you shouldn't respond with 
> a different mime type as if that was an appropriate response. The 406 
> or 30x responses make more sense.
>
> It's like saying, in a negotiation, that it's a fine thing to ignore 
> other negotiator and do what you want. Its not much of a negotiation 
> in that case.
>
> -Alan
>
>
Alan,

Amen :-)

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