Link Relations and HTTP Header Linking
I just stumbled across this RFC draft by Mark Nottingham:
This document specifies relation types for Web links, and defines a registry for them. It also defines how to send such links in HTTP headers with the Link header-field.
Interestingly, it suggests a nice balance between the need for registration of well-known types and the decentralization needs: In a rel=’xyz’ attribute, ‘xyz’ is interpreted as a URI that’s relative to http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/; alternatively it can be an absolute URI, such as http://innoq.com/st/loves-it. I love it! Now can I please get the same thing for media types?
Web Gods speaking …
“Nice try. No. Would like Semantic Web instead?”
Atom: taking over the world, one idea at a time. :-)
The quoted text in my comment should have been
“Nice try. No. Would you like Semantic Web instead?”
Subbu: if anything like the semantic web is ever to succeed, this will be the path to it: small, incremental steps that create value along the way.
Actually, Opera decodes the Link: headers as if they were HTML links. It provides buttons in the UI to navigate well known HTML relations, like up, next, previous, first, last, top etc. Link headers rule!