Re: New Version Notification for draft-snell-search-method-02.txt

Am 03.09.2020 um 18:04 schrieb Roy T. Fielding:
> ... > Note that is triggered by the media types, not the data format.
>
> I don't see that as a limitation at all. Those general types don't
> say anything useful for the recipient. That's why applications of XML
> are supposed to use a more specific +xml media type instead, and we
> can require that of future implementations without hindering XML as
> a payload.
> ...

Right.

Payloads in WebDAV regrettably use application/xml (or text/xml). That's
hard to change now, but I'm tempted to register several more specific
types for future use cases (like linking to a PROPFIND payload).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:09:16 UTC