Hi Bob! On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Bob Wyman <[email protected]> wrote: > I find that I have a real need for the "md5" Link rel mechanism defined in > James Snell's old Atom Link Extensions draft or something functionally > equivalent. Basically, what I need to do is ensure that the "src" attribute > on an atom.content element is pointing to a known version of a resource > rather than simply to any resource that has the same URL as in the src > attribute. I'm then going to sign the Atom entry that contains this "by ref" > content element. [...] > Has anyone else needed hashed links in Atom? If so, what approach did you > use to provide them?
I'm actually using the le:md5 just as described in that draft. And pointing the publishers I want checksums from to it. It was either that or put up a page myself to link to with basically the same idea, and I figured the draft is already and will be online for quite some time, and easier to find than anything I would throw together. (I figured I could go with something based in RDF-land as well, but that's just as arbitrary from an Atom perspective.) Of course, the draft is stale and all, but I've found nothing more "standard". I asked here a couple of times over the past two years, and there is some interest, but I haven't heard about any definite alternative. Note that I don't actually recommend this practise, I just didn't find anything better, and haven't (yet) attempted to e.g. "adopt" the draft (which could be a way forward I guess, if such a thing is possible). Or defined an alternative elsewhere online. Best regards, Niklas
