[occi-wg] HTTP Header Serialization Format, use of Attribute header

[Andy Edmonds]

Go for it Ralf and we'll put it as a discussion topic for next week! :-)

On 13 Aug 2010, at 11:15, Ralf Nyren wrote:

> If there are no objections I say we reintroduce the Attribute header.
> 
> I can update the wiki page (HTTPHeaderRendering) accordingly. I then  
> suggest we use it as a basis for discussion at the conference call next  
> Wednesday and if you decide to decline the change we can just revert back  
> to the old version.
> 
> regards, Ralf
> 
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:21:00 +0200, Edmonds, AndrewX  
> <andrewx.edmonds at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> Good points and no objections from me :-)
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ralf Nyren [mailto:ralf at nyren.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:14 PM
>> To: Edmonds, AndrewX; occi-wg at ogf.org
>> Subject: Re: [occi-wg] HTTP Header Serialization Format, use of  
>> Attribute header
>> 
>> Yes, I am aware of the problems and thus currently only use the
>> comma-separated list format for outgoing data.
>> 
>> But as you said we still have this problem for Category and Link headers
>> in any case so I do not see why the specification would try to  
>> accommodate
>> the web framework, etc problems for just attributes. I mean, the whole
>> bootstrap/discovery process depends on the ability to send multiple
>> Category headers.
>> 
>> A more solid argument as I see it is one of robustness. With the  
>> Attribute
>> header we tag all the supplied values as being attributes and nothing
>> else. For a client this means it can display unrecognized (vendor)
>> attributes to the user and a server can respond with an appropriate error
>> message for any attributes it does not support. Without the Attribute
>> header unrecognized attributes would just be silently discarded.
>> 
>> regards, Ralf
>> 
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