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Re: Precondition support

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:42:39 +0200

Jerome Louvel schrieb:
> Julian,
>
>> I do agree that it's up to the EG to decide what the goal is.
>> As far as
>> I am concerned, I think the API should make it dead easy to
>> write good
>> rest-based services, but there should be extension hooks for
>> those who
>> need to go beyond that.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> Maybe we should start to compile a list of extension points
>> we need to
>> consider?
>>
>> - method names
>> - header types (syntax: list, precondition checking, entity header,
>> character escaping...)
>> - status codes
>>
>> ...and so on...
>
> - content negotiation
> - caching (setting of the 304 status, cache control)
> ...

- conneg vs. Accept-Encoding: gzip (if the implementation does
Content-Encoding: gzip on it's own, we need to find a way to handle the
ETags)

Best regards, Julian