This comes from a completely different set of requorements, but there's a proposal for a "Prefer:" header that might be useful for indicating packaging preferences.
Te Internet draft is timed out now, but I've pinged Marl Nottingham and he indicates the proposal is still alive ("sort of"). Sometimes these things sit around until someone has the energy to use them. If this were viewed as a useful option for SWORD, then we could put a little weight behind it to hopefully see it progressed as a standards track IETF proposal. This has the advantage of slipstreaming some existing effort rather than making all the running. #g -- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [hybi] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-thomson-hybi-http-timeout-00 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:21:24 +1100 From: Mark Nottingham <m...@mnot.net> This smells a little bit like the Prefer header: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-http-prefer-02 Did you consider using something like that? E.g., Prefer: response-fast Where the parameters of 'response-fast' is specific to the resource. As you can probably guess, I'm suggesting this because I'm concerned that 95% of people who want to use something like Request-Timeout won't have such a subtle use case in mind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Sword-app-techadvisorypanel mailing list Sword-app-techadvisorypanel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sword-app-techadvisorypanel