On Jul 14, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Stephan Koops wrote:
> Hi Stefan, hi all,
>>> Given the above I think the only reasonable thing to do right now
>>> is to remove the automatic URI-based conneg feature. Even limiting
>>> it to safe operation would violate the mapping of specific
>>> resources to generic resource classes. If we had a longer than the
>>> two weeks remaining before proposed final draft we could perhaps
>>> investigate other approaches but that's not an option for this rev
>>> of the specification.
>> Can't we take the middle ground and make this an optional feature,
>> de-activated by default?
> If you give no extensions for the extension mapping, it is switched
> off.
>
True.
> For PUT (and e.g. POST) I prefer not to use the conneg in the now
> defined way for another reason: If I send an entity e.g. a file from
> a filesystem, and the file name ends with ".xml" for example, than
> the xml is the mime type of the file to upload and not the requested
> mime type.
>
I don't see why the two are tied together, I could POST a HTML form to
a resource and ask for an XML representation back. The extension
mapping was always intended to be an alternative to the Accept header
nothing else.
Marc.
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.