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Media Types and a Link Relation Type for Link Sets
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpapi-linkset/
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profile-based conneg? #23

Closed reschke closed 3 years ago

reschke commented 3 years ago
  1. The "profile" attribute for media types to Represent Sets of Links

The profile parameter MAY be used by clients to express their preferences, and, if a client does so, a server SHOULD return a document that honors the profiles it recognizes, and MUST ignore the profiles which it does not recognize.

Is this about HTTP content negotiation? In that case linking to the specific part of the HTTP spec might be helpful.

hvdsomp commented 3 years ago

On Jun 22, 2021, at 21:20, Julian Reschke @.***> wrote:

 The "profile" attribute for media types to Represent Sets of Links The profile parameter MAY be used by clients to express their preferences, and, if a client does so, a server SHOULD return a document that honors the profiles it recognizes, and MUST ignore the profiles which it does not recognize.

Is this about HTTP content negotiation? In that case linking to the specific part of the HTTP spec might be helpful.

I don’t think this is about content negotiation because AFAIK Profile negotiation isn’t standardized yet. Although there’s attempts, see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-svensson-profiled-representations/

So, this is just about expressing profiles for the benefit of clients.

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reschke commented 3 years ago

So, this is just about expressing profiles for the benefit of clients.

So if it's not about HTTP connect, what is it about? Concrete example?

hvdsomp commented 3 years ago

On Jun 22, 2021, at 23:00, Julian Reschke @.***> wrote:

So, this is just about expressing profiles for the benefit of clients. So if it's not about HTTP connect, what is it about? Concrete example?

From Section 5:

For example, the attribute could be used to indicate that a link set uses a specific, limited set of link relation types. H

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reschke commented 3 years ago

That's the server using it. But the spec says:

The profile parameter MAY be used by clients to express their preferences (...)

What's an example use by a client?

hvdsomp commented 3 years ago

On Jun 22, 2021, at 23:27, Julian Reschke @.***> wrote:

That's the server using it. But the spec says: The profile parameter MAY be used by clients to express their preferences (...)

What's an example use by a client?

Oh, now I get it. It’s about this:

The profile parameter MAY be used by clients to express their preferences, and, if a client does so, a server SHOULD return a document that honors the profiles it recognizes, and MUST ignore the profiles which it does not recognize. I tend to agree that it could be appropriate to leave this part out and leave this aspect to potentially forthcoming profile negotiation guidelines.

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hvdsomp commented 3 years ago

Closing this as it was addressed by removing the sentence that suggested negotiation.