ISSUE-53: Which Content Types should be returned to bots?

RepresentationsToBots

Which Content Types should be returned to bots?

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Linked Data Platform Spec

Raised by:

David Wood

Opened on:

2013-03-15

Description:

This issue was raised by James Leigh on the public-ldp mailing list:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ldp-20130307/#http-get says:
4.2.3 LDPR servers may provide representations of the requested
LDPR beyond those necessary to conform to this specification,
using standard HTTP content negotiation. If the client does not
indicate a preference, text/turtle must be returned.

Googlebot (and many other crawlers) have an accept header of */*. Many
LDP implementations will want to return HTML for google (and others) to
index. However, section 4.2.3 (above) indicates that Turtle should be
sent to googlebot. I think this section should be removed.

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Related emails:

1. LDP Rec (from eric@w3.org on 2015-02-20)
2. Re: LDP drafts for review in preparation of Last Call -- deadline July 22 (from sspeiche@gmail.com on 2013-07-24)
3. Re: LDP drafts for review in preparation of Last Call -- deadline July 22 (from sspeiche@gmail.com on 2013-07-23)
4. Re: LDP drafts for review in preparation of Last Call -- deadline July 22 (from rgarcia@fi.upm.es on 2013-07-23)
5. Re: LDP drafts for review in preparation of Last Call -- deadline July 22 (from sspeiche@gmail.com on 2013-07-22)
6. Re: LDP drafts for review in preparation of Last Call -- deadline July 22 (from pierre-antoine.champin@liris.cnrs.fr on 2013-07-19)
7. Re: Section 4.2.3 Default to Turtle (from david@3roundstones.com on 2013-03-15)
8. ldp-ISSUE-53 (RepresentationsToBots): Which Content Types should be returned to bots? [Linked Data Platform core] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-03-15)

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