Re: Crawlers need content negotiation, not! was: Re: URL +1, LSID -1

On 16 Jul 2007, at 10:16, Eric Jain wrote:
> The Link header sounds like a good idea (never heard of that  
> before), but at the moment it seems simpler for someone who wants  
> to get only RDF documents to set an Accept header. This will also  
> ensure that you are not redirected (and waste a request) for a  
> resource that doesn't even have RDF.

There is no reason to not support both.

The Link header can be useful information for a browser that is not  
RDF aware, but know of some application that is. It would not  
normally involve this application to try different content type, but  
if the resource can list other representations it could put up a nice  
little button.

-- 
Stian Soiland, myGrid team
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ssoiland/

Received on Monday, 16 July 2007 11:48:45 UTC