Re: Discovering service descriptions

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Gregory Williams<greg@evilfunhouse.com> wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Kendall Clark wrote:
>
>> 2. GET /service-uri for protocol, which is a variant of Lee's Option
>> 1, but w/out the link header. As I recall, GET /service-uri is
>> available and the STTCPW.
>
>
> I'm not sure I fully understand this. Is this the same as option 7 (conneg)?

No.

> Without conneg, would this prevent providing a query form at the service
> uri?

Yes.

I didn't realize people were doing that: *ick*;

The problem with the proposed use of conneg is that, as spec'd, conneg
is not a way to get a representation of a different resource (query
form versus svc desc), it's a way to get a diff representation of the
*same* resource... so an HTML form or an RDF form... Or an HTML
version of the svc desc or an RDF version. But using conneg to return
an HTML form or a svc desc is an abuse of conneg.

(I haven't read all the intervening conversation since Lee's proposal,
so someone probably makes this point about conneg already.)

I didn't tweak to people returning HTML query forms in response to a
GET on the service endpoing. Thus, my variant is stillborn or we just
tell people to stop doing that. :>

Thanks.

Cheers,
Kendall

Received on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:47:30 UTC