Link header

[Antti]

Currently, as far as I know there's no facility to parse and generate Link headers,
It would be very useful if we had one, many APIs (including github) uses it to navigate.

Do we plan to add support for it?

http://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkHeader
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5988.txt

[seanmonstar]

Sounds fine to me.

[Antti]

It seems like this header is more complicated than others, just by judging it's ABNF:

Link           = "Link" ":" #link-value
link-value     = "<" URI-Reference ">" *( ";" link-param )
link-param     = ( ( "rel" "=" relation-types )
               | ( "anchor" "=" <"> URI-Reference <"> )
               | ( "rev" "=" relation-types )
               | ( "hreflang" "=" Language-Tag )
               | ( "media" "=" ( MediaDesc | ( <"> MediaDesc <"> ) ) )
               | ( "title" "=" quoted-string )
               | ( "title*" "=" ext-value )
               | ( "type" "=" ( media-type | quoted-mt ) )
               | ( link-extension ) )
link-extension = ( parmname [ "=" ( ptoken | quoted-string ) ] )
               | ( ext-name-star "=" ext-value )
ext-name-star  = parmname "*" ; reserved for RFC2231-profiled
                              ; extensions.  Whitespace NOT
                              ; allowed in between.
ptoken         = 1*ptokenchar
ptokenchar     = "!" | "#" | "$" | "%" | "&" | "'" | "("
               | ")" | "*" | "+" | "-" | "." | "/" | DIGIT
               | ":" | "<" | "=" | ">" | "?" | "@" | ALPHA
               | "[" | "]" | "^" | "_" | "`" | "{" | "|"
               | "}" | "~"
media-type     = type-name "/" subtype-name
quoted-mt      = <"> media-type <">
relation-types = relation-type
               | <"> relation-type *( 1*SP relation-type ) <">
relation-type  = reg-rel-type | ext-rel-type
reg-rel-type   = LOALPHA *( LOALPHA | DIGIT | "." | "-" )
ext-rel-type   = URI

[tabac]

@seanmonstar Hi, I'd like to give this a try if you're OK, we still want this right?

[seanmonstar]

@tabac sure!