- From: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:50:23 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
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/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say:
| How would you query a webserver for a list of available representations
| of the abstract entity? What if you need to reference a specific
| representation?
Having just hacked a bit of this into a web server of my own, (one of)
the answer(s) to the latter question is content negotiation.
If you ask for //server/foo and tell the server you'll accept a number
of things, and there are several representations of foo available,
you'll get one of them.
If you ask for //server/foo and tell it you'll only accept an
application/xml+foo representation, you'll get either that
representation or an error.
There might also be a unique URI that always gets the
application/xml+foo representation.
I don't know how to query for the available representations though...
Be seeing you,
norm
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XML Standards Architect | himself more than anyone else, he sets less
Web Tech. and Standards | value on his own estimate than on the
Sun Microsystems, Inc. | opinions of others.--Marcus Aurelius
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