Re: Is it correct to respond with partial representation for low capabilities media-types?

Hi Roy, nice to see you here,

In the context of HTTP, does the presence of hypermedia controls in the
header of a representation which media-type isn't an hypermedia can still
make HATEOAS possible?

-- Philippe

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Roy T. Fielding <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Jun 20, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Philippe Rathé wrote:
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> > By the way, does somebody know if an http header is considered part of
> > the representation from a REST POV? Because it is possible to define
> > link relations in the header response without it being in the
> > "metadata body container".
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> Yes, for those header fields that are not defined as control data
> (like Cache-control) or message metadata (like Transfer-Encoding).
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> ....Roy
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