Re: i69: Clarify "Requested Variant" [was: New "200 OK" status codes, PATCH & PROPFIND]

On 05/02/2008, at 5:20 AM, Henrik Nordström wrote:

>
> tor 2008-01-31 klockan 09:55 +1100 skrev Mark Nottingham:
>
>> I find this just plain weird. On POST responses, it implies that you
>> can negotiate for response headers on another resource and get them
>> tunnelled back in the current response. If there's a Vary header
>> present, does it apply to that resource too? If not, how do you know
>> what the requested variant really was?
>
> Content-Location, except that you can not blindly trust it due to
> security implications... and we have already agreed that URIs  
> indicated
> by Content-Location SHOULD NOT be subject to server driven content
> negotiation. Layering content negotiation ontop of those quickly leads
> to recursive madness.

That implies that the response is a representation of the "other"  
resource, which is often not desirable.


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Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2008 15:11:43 UTC