On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 07:04:55AM +0000, Graham Klyne wrote: > This smells a little bit like the Prefer header: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-http-prefer-02
Ah, yes, this is what I was thinking of in relation to the discussion on what to return in response to a DELETE request. FWIW we haven't needed to implement this yet in our data repository work, but I can see it would be useful. Cheers, Alistair > > 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 -- Alistair Miles Head of Epidemiological Informatics Centre for Genomics and Global Health <http://cggh.org> The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Roosevelt Drive Oxford OX3 7BN United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: aliman...@gmail.com Tel: +44 (0)1865 287669 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
