- From: Wilde, Erik <Erik.Wilde@emc.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:25:49 -0500
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, "public-ldp-wg@w3.org" <public-ldp-wg@w3.org>
hello kingsley. On 2013-01-24 17:59 , "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: >On 1/24/13 11:40 AM, Wilde, Erik wrote: >> i am certainly using "link" in the REST sense: references that clients >>are expected to follow in their application flow, and where the behavior >>is defined by the protocol (the media type). if that may cause >>confusion, what about hyperlink, following the recent trend that one of >>the essences of REST is that it's hypermedia? >Is a Content-type (or media type) a protocol? Isn't that metadata for >the resource denoted by the link? Basically, the description of the data >de-referenced by the link. any content type that uses links (i.e., goes beyond simple image/gif kind of standalone data formats) essentially is a protocol: it defines rules how interactions between clients and servers are possible, and what they mean. cheers, dret.
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