Re: Namespace and media types

[Mark Pilgrim <pilgrim@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:58:24 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Mark Baker wrote:
> >Because the namespace and the media type are orthogonal; you shouldn't
> >use one to do the others job, and can't without creating ambiguity
> >(read; security) and performance problems.
> 
> And interoperability problems. Say you want to do content negotiation,

http://wellformedweb.org/news/WebServicesAndContentNegotiation

> http://example.org/feed is both, an Atom document and a RSS document,
> delivering both as application/xml is difficult and a user agent that
> sends only Accept: application/xml or just Accept: */* would have a
> problem too. Worse because you cannot reliably ask the server which
> representations are available...

I know of no aggregator today that sends an Accept header.  (This is
not to say it's a bad idea.)

Cheers,
-Mark