- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:24:30 +0200
- To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
On 2011-06-16 18:09, ashok malhotra wrote: > > On 6/16/2011 8:28 AM, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >> That said, this leaves open that if we want to invent a 209 response >> where the response contains information ABOUT the thing identified by >> the URI but not its contents, that could be useful. > > Yes, we could do that but in the situation where there is a > representation and some metadata, > you would never get a 209. So, I have been leaning toward a new > getMetadata HTTP verb but > I've been told that this is too radical. Sounds like a very old discussion. PROPFIND and the HTTP Link header field come to mind as existing mechanisms to deal with this... Best regards, Julian
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