Re: Issue-57

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

Received on Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:25:11 UTC