Re: Proposal to close Issue-65: FirstPage HATEOAS Compliance

On 10 May 2013, at 18:18, Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> I propose closing ISSUE-65 as follows: 
> 
> 1) Keep that in response to a GET, LDP servers MAY redirect to a resource that only contains the first page 
> 2) Remove built-in URL pattern <resourceURL>?firstPage 
> 3) Add that when LDP servers provide a resource that only contains the first page they may advertise it via an HTTP Link header rel=first (this is defined by IANA, alternatively we can define our own a la http://www.w3.org/ns/ldp#:firstPage) on the resource. 
> 
> The latter (3) is only necessary if we want to retain the capability for a client to initiate paging. I think this is simple enough that it's worth considering but if this gives anyone heartburn or if it requires additional discussion for which we have no time I say drop it and close with (1) & (2). We can always add (3) later. 
> 
> Note that this is slighlty different from what James Leigh proposed when he raised the issue. James's proposal didn't have the redirect. However we already have the redirect and I think it's cleaner so I don't see any reason to change that. 

All of that seems very reasonable.

> 
> Regards.
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> Arnaud  Le Hors - Software Standards Architect - IBM Software Group

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