Re: httpRange-14 Change Proposal

Nathan wrote:
> Jeni Tennison wrote:
>> # Details
>>
>> In section 4.1, in place of the second paragraph and following list, 
>> substitute:
>>
>>   There are three ways to locate a URI documentation link in an HTTP 
>> response:
>>
>>    * using the Location: response header of a 303 See Other response 
>> [httpbis-2],      e.g.
>>
>>      303 See Other
>>      Location: http://example.com/uri-documentation>
>>
>>    * using a Link: response header with link relation 'describedby' 
>> ([rfc5988],      [powder]), e.g.
>>
>>      200 OK
>>      Link: <http://example.com/uri-documentation>; rel="describedby"
>>
>>    * using a ‘describedby’ ([powder]) relationship within the RDF 
>> graph created by      interpreting the content of a 200 response, eg:
>>
>>      200 OK
>>      Content-Type: text/turtle
>>
>>      PREFIX :<http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/>
>>      <http://example.com>        :describedby 
>> <http://example.com/uri-documentation> ;
>>        .
>>
> 
> Seeking clarification,
> 
> Given some arbitrary thing and a description of that thing, let's say:
> 
>   <http://example.org/uri> is described by 
> <http://example.org/uri-documentation>
> 
> Previously we could GET /uri and either:
> 
> a) follow the value of the Location header in a 303 response to get to 
> /uri-documentation
> 
> b) follow the value of the Link header to get to /uri-documentation
> 
> With this proposal though we'd be able to say issue a GET to /uri with 
> an Accept header value of text/turtle, and the server could return back 
> the contents of /uri-documentation, with a status of 200 OK, and where 
> the text/turtle response contained:
> 
> PREFIX :<http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/>
> <http://example.com> :describedby <http://example.com/uri-documentation>

PREFIX :<http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/>
<http://example.org/uri> :describedby <http://example.org/uri-documentation>

c+p error, apologies.

> Is this correct?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 

Received on Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:47:34 UTC