- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:16:07 +0100
- To: Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com>
- Cc: SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 11 Aug 2009, at 07:08, Gregory Williams wrote: > On Aug 11, 2009, at 2:01 AM, Steve Harris wrote: > >> On 11 Aug 2009, at 06:03, Gregory Williams wrote: >> >>> I'm still worried about HTTP OPTIONS not having a lot of support >>> in some client libraries. It also (I believe) make it difficult to >>> get at a service description with a web browser for visual >>> inspection. Do any browsers provide a way to make OPTIONS requests >>> (I know curl allows this)? >> >> Certainly Firefox and Safari do. I don't have any others to test >> on, but a quick google suggests that IE and Chrome support it too. >> See http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ > > Hmmm... I was hoping for something that didn't involve javascript > (hence "visual inspection"). I'd like to be able to glance over > what's in a service description without having to resort to > programming. I suppose the conneg option might help here, but in > general I suspect conneg for html would return just a query form, > not an html-formatted version of the service description. Agreed that's not ideal. I don't /think/ you can conneg to another verb though. If it's purely for human consumption there could be a recommendation in the spec the what is at the top level of the endpoint includes a link to a human readable description. Seems like a bit of a heavy requirement though. - Steve -- Steve Harris Garlik Limited, 2 Sheen Road, Richmond, TW9 1AE, UK +44(0)20 8973 2465 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD
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