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[jsr339-experts] Re: Hypermedia - Take 2

From: Jan Algermissen <algermissen1971_at_me.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:56:04 +0200

On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:41 PM, Jan Algermissen wrote:

>> but in some case they won't and in some cases servers will forget providing
>> info such as xml:base, etc.
>
> And? You always have the proper context by definition through the request URI.


To provide some context for the discussion:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.1

Can't we reasonably expect clients of JAX-RS based servers to get RFCs 2616 and 3986 right? Not being able to turn a relative URI reference into an absolute one is just bogus and should not matter to our design decisions.

Jan