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Stefan Tilkov posted a link to a proposed RFC from Mark Nottingham on registering and using rel values in HTTP Link Headers.
here's a teaser:
This document defines typed link relations, independent of the context they occur in. It does so by clarifying the status of the link relation registry established by Atom, and registering in it the relations that are defined by HTML.
A REST-Discuss thread pointed me to a MIME type that i had totally forgotten about: text/uri-list.
it's defined in RFC2483 Section 5. here's a snippet:
Several of the resolution service requests, such as I2Ls, I2Ns, result in a list of URIs being returned to the client. The text/uri- list Internet Media Type is defined to provide a simple format for the automatic processing of such lists of URIs.
here's a simple example:
# urn:isbn:0-201-08372-8
http://www.huh.org/books/foo.html
http://www.huh.org/books/foo.pdf
ftp://ftp.foo.org/books/foo.txt
presents some interesting possibilities...
i just stumbled upon this tweet from HenryStory about a little known (to me, at least) HTML keyword: <keygen>.
this keyword can be used to prompt the browser to generate an SSL cert and pass it to the server. the server can then sign it and pass data back to the browser that will result in a fully-installed SSL cert. much easier than prompting users to walk through the maze of manually downloading and installing certs.
details on this cool element are covered in a whatwg discussion thread. the real details appear in an attachment from one of the messages. below is one of the more enticing descriptions of the attachment
I'm sure that if more people knew about this attribute and how to use it, it would be used in a lot more areas. It can be used within big companies that relies on strong security for their employees when they want to access company data from the outside, example mail or administrative web tools. Internet banks can also use this. They would/should only use standarized tested technology, and currently, this attribute is not fairly standarized, nor documented.
biggest bummer - IE doesn't support it. but FF, Opera, and Safari have it already implemented.
could be *very* intersting. esp. if IE got it's act together and decided to support it, too.
rj has posted a detailed review of a handful of errors and odd behaviors from Azure BLOB Storage recently.
i (and others) have been seeing similar problems w/ SDS BLOB storage. there are two threads in the SDS forums detailing the problems from several days ago without any clear response yet.
i know it's the holidays and things will take a bit longer to resolve. and it's all beta anyway. but this is getting a bit disconcerting. the fact that both Azure and SDS BLOBS are suffering problems leads me to think there's something fundamental that is not quite right in Microsoft Cloud-land.
let's hope the skies clear pretty soon.
as part of my 'leveling-up' of my coding skills for 2009, i'm digging into Python in an attempt to actually be productive with it. not easy for a dude that never did well in math!
i picked out some new books to me along:
all by Mark Lutz - man this guy is prolific! i'm hodling about 2300 print pages here!
i can see i have my work cut out for me.