As suggested on the "PUT and DELETE tunneling" thread, when using a
Servlet container you could implement a servlet filter to patch the
Accept header value based on extension or query parameter value.
Marc.
On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Jerome Louvel wrote:
>
> Stefan,
>
>>> As serving files from directories on the file systems is
>>> not really in our scope,
>>
>> I don't recall suggesting it was ...
>
> I didn't mean to imply that. If mapping directories was indeed in
> our scope,
> we would have had to handle file extensions for sure. This was my only
> point.
>
>>> I think that when users need to specify a special media type that
>>> they want to get, they have two options:
>>>
>>> 1) Adjust their "Accept" header to force the conneg to return a
>>> specific
>>> representation
>>
>> I agree this is the clean way ...
>
> OK
>
>>> 2) Rely on a query parameter like "media=application/xml"
>>>
>>
>> ... while this seems to be just as good or bad as the other
>> suggestion.
>>
>>> Note that the ".xml" extension is more ambiguous than "application/
>>> xml" or
>>> "application/blinksale-xml".
>>>
>>
>> I agree.
>
> OK
>
>>> We could even automate the translation of the "media" parameter
>>> into an
>>> "Accept:" header like we do in the Restlet framework:
>>> http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.0/api/org/restlet/service/
>>> TunnelServi
>>> ce.html
>>>
>>
>> Neat, but I'm not entirely sure I would like to go this far.
>> Enabling
>> people to build their own content negotiation replacement is one
>> thing, explicitly coding one into the framework is another - i.e. I
>> think we should enable common workarounds, but not encourage them.
>
> Such "tunnel" service could be turned off by default to not
> "encourage"
> relying on it.
>
> Best regards,
> Jerome
>
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