[Cosmo-dev] Cosmo URL proposal

[Jared Rhine]

Brian Moseley wrote:
>> * I agree with Brian's initial instinct that there should be a dedicated
>> URL chosen where the alternate links can be retrieved via HTML, in
>> *addition* to the web URL.  Unless the Atom Service Document is going to
>> provide...
> 
> not sure what you were going to say here, but the service document is
> in atom xml, not html.

Sorry, I meant HTTP actually.  I'm more clear now that the intent is for the
Atom Service Document to be that well-defined second mechanism.

>> It does presume that any code that wants to lookup the proper URL can
>> parse the HTML output, or at least hack a regexp up.  That gives a lower
> 
> or process the atom service document at the resource's autodiscovery url.

Parsing is about the same complexity for the web URLs head links method and
the Atom service document.  If some lighter-weight mechanism is desired by a
dev, they will probably look for REST+Location header or magic redirect type
thing.  No need for that now, though.  The specification as it stands looks
good and supports the development use cases which seem most important to me.

+1 to the proposal.

-- Jared