On 2006/06/07, at 11:40 PM, Thomas Broyer wrote:
My main concern is that RFC3229 w/ feeds is being deployed more and
more widely and is still not even an I-D (or I missed something).
I have that concern as well.
I am also concerned that RFC3229 is an extension of HTTP, but some
implementers are acting as if it chages the semantics of already-
defined parts of HTTP. For example, a delta must be a subset of the
current representation that is returned to a GET; if you GET the
feed, it has to return all of the entries that you could retrieve by
using delta.
I have a feeling that many people are treating it as a dynamic query
mechanism that's capable of retrieving any entry that's ever been in
the feed, while still only returning the last n entries to a plain
GET. If so, they're breaking HTTP, breaking delta, and should use
something else.
Is this the case, or am I (happily) mistaken?
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