[p2p-hackers] Tighter HTTP and P2P integration??

[Karl A. Magdsick]

Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
[snip]

>I suppose if the "Link" header is being used to return information,
>this could be generalized to make this "conditional get" be a way to
>probe for "Link" data.
>
>So, instead of using "X-If-No-Alternate" it could be "X-If-No-Link"
>(and then specify what relation or other meta data you want).
>
>For example, I could get a blogs RSS feed with:
>
>    X-If-No-Link: rel="alternate"; type="application/rss+xml"
>
>Although the exact notation may need to be different since using the
>  
>
Why add an extra header in this case?  It would be less intrusive to the 
webserver
code if the client issues a HEAD request and checks for Link headers, rather
than add a completely new X-If-No-Link header.


-Karl