Return of the HTTP Link: header@en

Mark Nottingham has submitted an Internet-Draft to re-define the Link header, as originally found in RFC2068. He's included a couple of enhancements, a Profile: header (semantically equivalent to the one in HTML's <head>) as well as a URI templating facility, e.g.:

Link-Template: <http://example.com/home/{userid}>; rel="home"

I'm not entirely sure of the use cases for templating, but there's a fairly obvious one for Profile: - use it like (X)HTML profile in GRDDL to auto-interpret RDF from the message.

I've had an application for the Link: header on my backburner for a while, using it to submit the URI of the user's FOAF profile, a kind of SemCookie thang. Mark was actually one of the people I asked about how to do this (his name's all over related specs), his suggestion at the time was:

Link: <http://example.org/foaf.rdf>; rel="foaf"

Anyhow, nice to see things interesting things happening around the
core specs.

PS. Mark suggests adding a Profile: header, presumably:

Link: <http://example.org/foaf.rdf>; rel="foaf"


Profile: <
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>

 

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Danny Ayers
2006-06-23T11:25:54+02:00

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