- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:24:46 +0000
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > 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. Thanks Roy, that's exactly the answer I was hoping for! Best, Nathan
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