James Snell wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James M Snell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:38 PM
> To: Joe Cheng
> Cc: Mark Nottingham; Brian Smith; 'Atom-Syntax'; Steven Lees
> Subject: Re: Tombstones
>
> Updated version to fix a few typos in the original....
>
>   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-http-prefer-01.txt
>
> - James
>
> James M Snell wrote:
> > This could probably help:
> >
> >   http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-http-prefer-00
> >
> > Request:
> > ========
> > GET /feed
> > Host: example.org
> > Prefer: feedsync-tombstones
> >
> > Response:
> > =========
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Vary: Prefer
> >
> > ...
> >
> > - James

The Prefer: header looks like it would work. It is a problem, though, that the 
server isn't required to follow the request? In practice it seems like it could 
still work, because the server has no reason not to provide tombstones, if they 
are asked for.

Steven

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