Re: anchor to associated LDP-RS on LDP-NR creation (was:Fw: [oslc-core] Proposal to remove Link header option from Resource Preview spec)

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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Rob Sanderson
Technology Collaboration Facilitator
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford, CA 94305

Received on Thursday, 11 September 2014 16:05:24 UTC