Pavatar Support Forum - only rel="avatar" - advantages and disadvantages

only rel="avatar" - advantages and disadvantages

posted by Jeena Paradies , Varberg / Sweden, 12.01.2007, 07:33

» That would be quite unusual. Someone who has a PDF for a site will hardly
» ever need a pavatar.
Hm, ok you're right. I got the idea from the Pingback spec and I like the idea of beeng able to specify any HTTP resourca as your "homepage".

» » But what is the problem with a HTTP header like X-Pavatar or Link:
» » <http://example.org/avatar.png>; rel="avatar"? The second is semanticly
» » exactly the same as the <link> in HTML.
» I don't think hobbyist plugin writers would appreciate something like that ;)
I had never a problem with that, in PHP I use

$request =& new HTTP_Request($url);
$request->getResponseHeader("X-Pingback");

and with Ruby

Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) { |http|
 response = http.head(  path == '.' ? '/' : url.path.to_s )
 pavatar_url = response['X-Pavatar']
}

» Actually, I think I have an idea for a much better method. I'll hold it
» back until the existing issues are sorted out.
What kind of idea is it?

» Well, how about this?
» 
If you read the spec, this is a valid way to add a pavatar to your homepage.

» These 70% must know HTML...
Ok, you are right perhaps.

» Letting everybody just upload a file is the easiest thing to do, but it
» isn't necessarily the right thing. I read the Fishing article, and it made
» a lot of sense to me. Didn't it to you?
Not really, bandwith is not really a argument nowadays paticurarly with a simple head request, this semantics example (http://example.com/nnnnn/) works for pavatar (autodiscovers http://example.com/nnnnn/pavatar.png), for the discoverability we do have autodiscovery mechanism.

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        only rel="avatar" - advantages and disadvantages - damnian, 12.01.2007, 10:30
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