[uf-rest] HTTP headers for Microformats

[Mark Nottingham]

Are there any conventions for indicating whether content has a  
microformat in it based upon HTTP headers? While the link tag can be  
re-serialised as the Link HTTP header, that doesn't cover all  
microformats.

The use case is microformat sniffing/modification/dispatching/etc. by  
intermediaries; generally, they're really loathe to open up the body.  
A flag in the headers (media type? separate header? etc.) would get  
uF detection off of the critical path.

Yes, this makes things significantly more difficult for authors (at  
least until we fix the tools!), but it would be very helpful to be  
able to do it.

Otherwise, some best practice that made it possible to detect whether  
some content embedded a uF within the first n bytes (say, 50) would  
be very helpful.

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Mark Nottingham
mnot at yahoo-inc.com