Re: Moving forward on Site Metadata [siteData-36]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:09 -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> On 2006/05/05, at 3:06 PM, Dan Connolly wrote:
[...]
> > Using the favico use case, I think the idea is something
> > like:
> >
> > C->S:
> > 	GET /some/page HTTP/1.1
> > 	Host: www.foo.org
> >
> > S->C:
> > 	200 OK
> > 	Link: rel="meta" </sitedescr>
> >
> > And in /sitedescr we'd have something like
> >
> >   <http://www.foo.org/sitedescr#thisSite>
> >     urispace:prefix "http://www.foo.org";
> >     chrome:icon <http://www.foo.org/icons/site_icon>.
> 
> Is the value of link/@rel="meta" contrained (e.g., it's invariant  
> across a site)?

No... the invariance across a site is expressed with urispace:prefix.


> BTW, it is possible to use OPTIONS in combination with content  
> negotiation on Apache; it's surprisingly easy -- just a simple  
> rewrite rule.

Hmmm... something about that makes my head hurt.

Besides, OPTIONS feels like PROPFIND... I expect to use GET
when I'm fetching content. I see there's a Location:
header that provides a URI, but still... it doesn't
feel right.


> > You're dangerously close to volunteering to do my action for me ;-)
> 
> I'm happy to give it a shot.

OK, if you beat me to it, great.

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Received on Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:55:37 UTC