[uf-rest] HTTP headers for Microformats

Tue Mar 21 13:16:19 PST 2006

Isn't that what an XMDP profile in <head> is supposed to be for?  Or  
were you looking for something in the *HTTP* headers? Why?  After  
all, it is just supposed to be HTML, no?

-- Ernie P.
On Mar 21, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham
> mnot at yahoo-inc.com
>
>
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