Re: HTTP Origin and Hop Hints and Prefer Header

Hey James,

Those things strike me as things that need to be per-resource, not per-origin... which means I need to add some language to the IANA Considerations section... :)

Cheers,


On 13/02/2013, at 3:59 AM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> The most recent draft looks good. One thing that struck me is that
> there seems to be a good alignment between this and the Prefer header.
> Currently, there is no way for a client to know whether or not a
> server supports Prefer. Hints would be a great way to provide that
> information.
> 
> For instance...
> 
> Async-Responses
> 
>   o  Hint Name: pa
>   o  Hint Type: origin
>   o  Description: When true, indicates that the origin supports
> Prefer: respond-async
>   o  Value Type: boolean
>   o  Contact: jasnell@gmail.com
> 
> Minimal Responses
> 
>   o  Hint Name: pr
>   o  Hint Type: origin
>   o  Description: When true, indicates that the origin supports
> Prefer: return-minimal and return=representation
>   o  Value Type: boolean
>   o  Contact: jasnell@gmail.com
> 
> Strict and Lenient Handling
> 
>   o  Hint Name: ph
>   o  Hint Type: origin
>   o  Description: When true, indicates that the origin supports
> Prefer: handling=strict and handling=lenient
>   o  Value Type: boolean
>   o  Contact: jasnell@gmail.com
> 
> - James
> 

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Received on Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:15:08 UTC