Rudimentary Memento support on replay

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Rudimentary Memento support on replay

Opened this issue 6 years ago · 3 comments

I noticed that replaying WARCs provides a 14-digit datetime placeholder. As I anticipate this will eventually be semantic, it need not necessarily be. However, providing Memento (RFC7089) HTTP response headers would give some temporal context to the capture.

As a start, initially providing the Memento-Datetime HTTP response header (in RFC1123 format, e.g., Memento-Datetime: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:00:00 GMT) when viewing a capture from the WARC would be useful for further integration into other systems.

Answer 1 · 2019-02-19T23:07:45.000Z

Yep. I agree.

Answer 2 · 2019-02-20T08:34:00.000Z

We should also support the Accept-Datetime request header. Need index improvements (#12) for that.

Answer 3 · 2019-02-20T15:15:20.000Z

@ato I agree re:Accept-Datetime but I figured getting the capture/memento to report what it is would be a start for further negotiation.

For the endpoint that is receiving the Accept-Datetime header, be sure to have the Vary: Accept-Datetime in the response (see RFC7089 §2.1.2).

For the capture (memento) itself, you may also want to report a Link response header to relate the capture (at a URI-M) to the live web URI (URI-R) with rel="original", e.g., example in §4.1.1.