On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
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>> I'm hoping you could clear up a point in a discussion we're having on the Jersey users list.
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>> When the REST architectural style is mapped to HTTP, do the terms hypermedia and hypertext encompass:
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>> (i) HTTP headers and the entity body
>> (ii) Just the entity body
>> (iii) Something else (please explain)
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> A representation consists of representation data (body decoded)
> and representation metadata (some of the headers).
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Thanks for clearing that up. Just to be 100% certain that we understand, would you include the Location, Content-Location and (once standardized) Link headers in the representation metadata ?
Thanks again,
Marc.