Hi Sergio,
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Sergio Fernández <
sergio.fernandez@salzburgresearch.at> wrote:
> I have two questions for the WG:
> * Is not the anchor redundant information asserted by the Location header?
>
The Link header's context IRI is always the Request URI unless it is
overridden by the anchor parameter. That's a requirement of RFC5988:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-5.2
> * Looking to the poor support out there for such attribute (for instance
> JAX-RS 2.0 does not even mention it) I fear we're taking again the most
> complex way to solve an issue.
>
The most complex way happens to be the least complex way too, as it's the
_only_ way to fix it while remaining compliant with the specifications.
Unless you're proposing that we don't use link headers at all?
(-1 to not using link headers and inventing something new!)
Rob
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