- From: Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@subbu.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:21:05 -0800
- To: Bill Burke <bburke@redhat.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: Stefan Tilkov <stefan.tilkov@innoq.com>, REST-Discuss Discussion Group <rest-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
Perhaps that is a question for the HTTP-WG for clarification since 2616 defines Accept-* as request headers. Subbu On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Bill Burke wrote: > I do like the idea of asking the server for what data formats it > supports though. I wish the OPTIONS method of HTTP provided this > information. For example: > > OPTIONS /foo/bar > > would return a response of > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Accept: application/xml, application/json, text/plain > Accept-Language: en, es, fr > Allow: GET, POST, HEAD > > > Could something like this be done? Or is this overloading OPTIONS too > much. The specification really doesn't say exactly what OPTIONS > returns, but what I'm proposing does seem to fall in the definition of > the method.
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