Re: PaceContentNegotiationSection

Eric J. Bowman wrote:
> It seems to me that the purpose of an "introspection" document is to allow a 
> first-time visitor to a domain to determine what compatible services are 
> available.  The debate about the service document is concerned with being 
> able to find collections automatically, so why is finding the service 
> document a manual operation?
> 

It doesn't have to be.  APP leaves it undefined.  In one of our
implementations, we're using a <link rel="introspection" href="..." />
to find it. Other approaches are possible, results may vary.

> [snip]
> Under my setup, the service document is accessed once in a conneg scenario, 
> after which the user has their own service document (userid.atomsrv) cached 
> on their client, and when it needs refreshing it may just be requested, 
> instead of being renegotiated.
> 

In your setup, how does the client initially discover the URL used to
access the service document?

- James