- From: John Kemp <john.kemp@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:10:00 -0500
- To: "ext Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>
- CC: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Stuart, ext Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) wrote: ... >>> Anyway - that zip files don't intrinically maintain such info is not >>> a show stopper - though I would have thought that carrying media-type >>> information is a natural requirement for a packaging format for the >>> web. >> Is it not the case that a zip file containing widgets is a >> representation of an HTTP resource in its own right? If so, couldn't the >> HTTP header returned in response to a request for that resource contain >> an HTTP Link header [1] providing a link to another HTTP resource which >> provides the package metadata, including links to the individual >> resources contained within the zip file? > > In principle that's a possibility - though it provides an opportunity for more failure modes > (got the package, failed to get it's metadata) - and there will be the inevitable > multiple round-trip concerns, though since the headers before the body metadata retrieval > could be concurrent. Indeed. Of course the metadata could still also be present inside the zip file in addition to being linked via the HTTP Link header. Cheers, - johnk
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