Re: ASF repository URI syntax

2003-03-03 Thread Nick Chalko
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: But a build script (or an aggregator) could ask for specific formats, like "application/rss+xml" to get a feed with updated packages ;-) Ah - now it gets interesting - so I could let my trusty (jabber enabled) agent sit lurking an RSS feed, be able to poll my serve

RE: ASF repository URI syntax

2003-03-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> But IE doesn't specify a preference for HTML over XML, or any other text/* > type. As I understand the specification, that would require the server to > also use the user-agent for mapping, right? Depends on the client; if it was asking for x-application/asf-distro then it'd be a whole new se

RE: ASF repository URI syntax

2003-03-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > I think in general ./ or ./index.html should return a human readable > > form and ./index.xml should give machine readable form of the following > Or use the Accept-type: as a selector. Could you clarify your thoughts? I assume that you are refering to the Accept: header as defined by RFC