Re: conneg considered harmful

Perhaps it is worth referencing some other other Fielding quotes on the
subject:

https://delicious.com/alan.dean/Roy.Fielding+conneg

Regards,
Alan Dean


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Peter Williams <[email protected]>wrote:

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> Eric,
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> That is an interesting quote. I have occasionally heard
> unsubstantiated claims regarding the badness of accept header based
> content negotiation. It is interesting that Roy perceives it as
> "revolting".
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> Personally, i rather like it but perhaps i am missing something
> important. I'd definitely like to hear someone (or multiple someones)
> actually articulate what they perceive as problematic about it. So far
> i don't recall ever reading a discussion of the downsides that got
> beyond "i don't like it" or "it is hard for me to implement" (neither
> of which resonate with me).
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> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Eric J. Bowman [email protected]>
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> > Mark Baker wrote:
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> >> Besides, client driven uses hypermedia so is way more RESTful.
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> Mark, can you explain a bit more why you think this? It is not clear
> to me why avoiding this particular part of http's uniform interface
> would make a client more RESTful.
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> Peter
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