On 10/31/05, Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Floating an idea here: can we define a custom HTTP header for reporting the
> location of the associated atom:entry? Thus a POST of an image would return
> a "Location: URI-of-image" and also a "X-Atom-Location: URI-of-entry"?

The entry for a media/generic member has never been editable
and that's been true across all the drafts in which media/generic
collections have appeared. I do view that as a problem and did
float one Pace to address that deficiency, PaceSimplifyCollections.

Another way to solve this problem would be to have the POSTing
to a media collection create two editable resources, the original
resource and the atom:entry with the meta-data. Both URIs could
be returned in membership lists:

   <link rel="edit" href="URI of atom:entry resource (metadata).">
   <link rel="srcedit" href="URI of media resource">

This lets a client edit metadata of media collections members, but only
requires one POST to create the member. The requirement of two steps in
PaceSimplifyCollections is what killed it.

   -joe

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Joe Gregorio        http://bitworking.org

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