Re: [search-ws-comment] searchRetrieve Accept Parameters

[Tim Williams <williamstw@gmail.com>]

Really?  URLTemplates don't preclude you from regular HTTP content
negotiation - it's ultimately just a URL.  I've implemented opensearch
and relied on regular HTTP conneg, is there something I'm missing
here?

--tim

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:25 AM, LeVan,Ralph<levan@oclc.org> wrote:
> The need comes from the OpenSearch community.  They communicate with
> servers using URL templates and have no way of specifying the format of
> the response, other than through parameters in the URL.  So, they, and
> hence we, must embed content negotiation in our URLs.
>
> Ralph
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tim Williams [mailto:williamstw@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 8:03 AM
>> To: search-ws-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
>> Subject: [search-ws-comment] searchRetrieve Accept Parameters
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>> I'm reading the sru-2-0-draft dated July 22, 2009.  Is there
>> discussion somewhere that explains the rationale/need for supplying
>> custom http-style parameters (sec 4.9) that duplicate the HTTP Headers
>> themselves?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --tim
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