RE: ContentType negotiation

Aaron Swartz wrote:

>
>
> Lee Jonas <ljonas@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > The suggestion is: one possible way to associate RDF metadata with a
> > resource is via content negotiation - i.e. negotiate for the
> 'text/rdf+xml'
> > or 'application/rdf+xml' content type of a resource to get back an rdf
> > document containing the resource's metadata.
> >
> > Is this a good idea, or just abuse of multiviews / typemaps?
>
> I'd think this would be acceptable, and is in fact what I plan to
> implement
> myself. I believe that the W3C has even published a NOTE which uses this
> technique.
>

Acceptable to whom? Content negotiation as it is currently implemented and
deployed is not acceptable to those people who don't have control over their
ISP's server (that's alot of people).

-Jonathan

Received on Monday, 23 April 2001 06:57:09 UTC