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Abstract Abstract
This memo presents a protocol for using XML (Extensible Markup This memo presents a protocol for using XML (Extensible Markup
Language) and HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol) to edit content. Language) and HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol) to edit content.
The Atom Publishing Protocol is an application-level protocol for The Atom Publishing Protocol is an application-level protocol for
publishing and editing Web resources belonging to periodically publishing and editing Web resources belonging to periodically
updated websites. The protocol at its core is the HTTP transport of updated websites. The protocol at its core is the HTTP transport of
Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is documented in the Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is documented in the
Atom Syndication Format (draft-ietf-atompub-format-02.txt). Atom Syndication Format (draft-ietf-atompub-format-06.txt).
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Table of Contents Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1 Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1 Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. The Atom Publishing Protocol Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. The Atom Publishing Protocol Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1 Atom Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1.1 Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1.2 Client and Server Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Functional Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Functional Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1 PostURI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1 Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.1 Locating the PostURI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.1 Collection Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.2 Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.2 Elements in a Collection Document . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.3 Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.3 Collection Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2 EditURI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2 Introspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2.1 Locating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2.1 Service Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2.2 Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3 Entry Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3 FeedURI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3.1 Locating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.3.1 Locating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3.2 Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4 Simple Resource Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3.3 Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.4 ResourcePostURI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.4.1 Locating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4.1 Locating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.4.2 Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.4.2 Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.4.3 Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5 Atom Request and Response Body Constraints . . . . . . . . 11
3.5 Link Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5.1 id . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.5.1 rel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5.2 link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.5.2 href . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5.3 title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.5.3 title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.5.4 summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.5.4 type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.5.5 content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.6 Atom Request and Response Body Constraints . . . . . . . . 13 3.5.6 issued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.6.1 id . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.5.7 modified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.6.2 link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.5.8 created . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.6.3 title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.5.9 author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.6.4 summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.5.10 contributor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.6.5 content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.5.11 generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.6.6 issued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.6 Securing the Atom Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.6.7 modified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.6.1 [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.6.8 created . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.6.9 author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.6.10 contributor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 6. Appendix A - SOAP Enabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.6.11 generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 6.1 Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.7 Securing the Atom Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6.2 Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.7.1 [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7. Appendix B - Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7.1 Example for a weblog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 7.2 Example for a wiki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6. Appendix A - SOAP Enabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8. Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.1 Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.2 Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7. Appendix B - Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . 19
7.1 Example for a weblog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7.2 Example for a wiki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8. Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
9. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . 21
1. Introduction 1. Introduction
The Atom Publishing Protocol is an application-level protocol for The Atom Publishing Protocol is an application-level protocol for
publishing and editing Web resources using HTTP [RFC2616] and XML. publishing and editing Web resources using HTTP [RFC2616] and XML.
1.1 Notational Conventions 1.1 Notational Conventions
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
1.2 Terminology 1.2 Terminology
Atom Entry: An Atom Entry is a fragment of a full Atom feed. In this Atom Entry: An Atom Entry is a fragment of a full Atom feed. In this
case, the fragment is a single 'entry' element and all its child case, the fragment is a single 'entry' element and all its child
elements. Each Atom Entry describes a single Web resource, elements. Each Atom Entry describes a single Web resource,
providing metadata and optionally a textual representation of that providing metadata and optionally a textual representation of that
resource. resource.
PostURI: A URI that is used to create new resources. POSTing an Atom
Entry to this URI will create a new resource.
EditURI: A URI that is used to edit a resource. The editing is done
using the HTTP verbs GET, PUT and DELETE. The representation of
the resource is always that of an Atom Entry.
FeedURI: The URI which identifies an Atom Feed.
2. The Atom Publishing Protocol Model 2. The Atom Publishing Protocol Model
The Atom Publishing Protocol is an application-level protocol for The Atom Publishing Protocol is an application-level protocol for
publishing and editing Web resources. Using the common HTTP verbs publishing and editing Web resources. The primary way of interaction
provides a pattern for working with all such Web resources: in the Atom Publishing Protocol is by managing collection of
resources. All collections support the same basic methods of
interaction. In addition, the resources belonging to collections
also share the same interaction patterns. Using the common HTTP
verbs provides a pattern for working with all such Web resources:
o GET is used to retrieve a representation of a resource or perform o GET is used to retrieve a representation of a resource or perform
a read-only query. a read-only query.
o PUT is used to update a known resource. o PUT is used to update a known resource.
o POST is used to create a new dynamically-named resource. o POST is used to create a new dynamically-named resource.
o DELETE is used to remove a resource. o DELETE is used to remove a resource.
There are four major classes of URI [RFC2396] in this specification: 2.1 Atom Collections
PostURI, ResourcePostURI, FeedURI, and EditURI. This specification
defines the expected actions for each of the methods listed. A URI
MAY support methods not listed here. For example, an EditURI could
support a POST or OPTIONS method. However, what those methods do is
beyond the scope of this specification.
o EditURI: PUT, GET, DELETE
o PostURI: POST
o FeedURI: GET
o ResourcePostURI: POST
This document does not specify the form of the URIs that are used. An Atom collection is a set of items all of the same type ("members"
of the collection), where the "type" may be, for example: Atom entry,
category, template, "simple resource", or any other classification of
web resource.
Each collection has a URI which is given in the introspection file.
A GET on the collection URI MUST produce a collection document as
defined in "3.X.1 Collection Document." That document describes PART
OF the state of the collection.
All the members of a collection have an "updated" property, and the
collection is considered to be ordered by this property. A single
collection document may not contain all of the members of a
collection. If a collection document is the response of a
non-partial GET request, and does not contain all of the members of a
collection, then it will contain the URI of the next collection
document which will contain more of the collection members. By
traversing this list of collection documents a client can obtain all
of the members of a collection. The 'next' attribute will not be
present in the response to a partial GET request.
2.1.1 Usage
Below two usages are outlined for Atom Collections. They are here to
highlight common idioms for interacting with a Collection Resource
and not a normative interaction pattern.
The Atom Collection can be used by clients in two ways. In the first
case the client has attached to a site for the first time and is
doing an initial syncronization, that is, retrieving a list of all
the members of the collections and possibly retrieving all the
members of the collection also. The client can perform a non-partial
GET on the collection resource and it will receive a collection
document that either contains all the member of the collection, or
the collection document root element 'collection' will contain a
'next' attribute pointing to the next collection document. By
repeatedly following the 'next' attribute from document to document
the client can find all the members of the collection.
In the second case the client has already done an initial sync, and
now needs to re-sync, because the client was just restarted, or some
time has passed since a re-sync, etc. The client does a partial GET
on the collection document, supplying a Range header that begins from
the last time the client sync'd to the current time. The collection
document returned will contain only those members of the collection
that have changed since the last time the client syncronized.
2.1.2 Client and Server Interaction
[[anchor5: ...]]
This document does not specify the form of the URIs that are used.
The URI space of each server is controlled, as defined by HTTP, by The URI space of each server is controlled, as defined by HTTP, by
the server alone. What this document does specify are the formats of the server alone. What this document does specify are the formats of
the files that are exchanged and the actions that can be performed on the files that are exchanged and the actions that can be performed on
the URIs embedded in those files. the URIs embedded in those files.
3. Functional Specification 3. Functional Specification
3.1 PostURI 3.1 Collections
The PostURI is used to create entries. These can be either full 3.1.1 Collection Document
entries, such as a weblog post, or they can be comments, or even a
wiki page. The client POSTs a filled-in Atom Entry to this URI. If
the request is successful, one or more Web resources MAY be created.
For example, POSTing an Atom entry to a PostURI may create two new
Web resources, an HTML representation and an Atom representation.
3.1.1 Locating the PostURI A collection document is rooted by a <collection> element. A
collection element may have any number of <member> elements as
children; each such element identifies a member of the collection.
In some situations, a collection document may not contain every
member of the collection itself.
The PostURI can be discovered in a link element with an @rel of Whether complete or partial, the members in a collection document
'service.post'. The link element containing a PostURI used to create MUST constitute a consecutive sequence of the collection's members,
a new entry MAY be discovered in three different places. The first ordered by their "updated" properties. That is, a collection
place it may be found is in a <link> element in the 'head' element of document MUST contain a contiguous subset of the members of the
an HTML document. collection ordered by their 'updated' property.
The second place a PostURI may be found an atom:link element that is 3.1.2 Elements in a Collection Document
a child of the atom:feed element. The third place a PostURI may be
found is in the atom:link element of an atom:entry.
@@ TBD @@ - Discuss subordinate resources and what a PostURI means A collection document MAY contain zero or more 'member' elements.
based on where the URI was found.
<link rel="service.post" Each 'member' element MUST include an 'href' attribute identifying a
type="application/atom+xml" URL of the member resource. The 'href' URI of a member resource is
href="URI for Posting goes here" an "EditURI" under the terms of section 2, and MUST respond to the
title="The name of the site." /> same HTTP methods as such an EditURI.
3.1.2 Request Each 'member' element MAY include an "hrefreadonly" attribute. This
optional attribute identifies a URI which, on a GET request, responds
equivalently to how the "href" URI would respond to the same request.
Clients SHOULD NOT apply to this URI any HTTP methods that would be
expected to modify the state of the resource (e.g. PUT, POST or
DELETE). A PUT or POST request to this URI MAY NOT affect the
underlying resource. If the "hrefreadonly" attribute is not given,
its value defaults to the "href" value. If the "hrefreadonly"
attribute is present, and its value is an empty string, then there is
no URI that can be treated in the way such a value would be treated.
The request contains a filled-in Atom entry, subject to the Clients SHOULD use the "href" value to manipulate the resource within
constraints in section Section 3.6. the context of the APP itself. Clients SHOULD prefer the
"hrefreadonly" value in any other context. For example, if the
resource is an image, a client may replace the image data using a PUT
on the "href" value, and may even display a preview of the image by
fetching the "href" URI. But when creating a public, read-only
reference to the same image resource, the client should use the
"hrefreadonly" value. If the "hrefreadonly" value is an empty
string, the client SHOULD NOT make public reference to the "href"
value.
3.1.3 Response Each 'member' element MUST include a 'title' attribute, whose value
is a human-readable name or description for the item. The values of
'title' attributes are not required to be unique across all members
of a collection.
The possible status codes from a POST are 201, 303, 400, 404, 409, Each 'member' element MUST include an 'updated' attribute, whose
410 and 500. value is the 'updated' property of the collection member whose format
MUST conform to the date-time BNF rule in [RFC3339].
3.1.3.1 Response code 201 3.1.3 Collection Requests
The Response MUST include a Location: header with the URI of the 3.1.3.1 Range: Header
created resource. The URI returned must be the EditURI of the entry
just created. The body of the response SHOULD contain the newly
created entry. If the entry is present in the response body then it
MUST conform to the same constraints listed for responses to a GET on
an EditURI. User agents MUST NOT depend on the server returning a
response body. If the server does return a response body then the
user agents MUST NOT depend on the response body having a
content-type of 'application/atom+xml". Note that the server may
choose to omit the content in the response, particularly if it is
large.
A 201 response MAY contain an ETag response header field indicating HTTP/1.1 allows a client to request that only part (a range of) the
the current value of the entity tag for the requested variant just collection to be included within the response. HTTP/1.1 uses range
created. units in the Range header field. A collection can be broken down
into subranges according to the members 'updated' property. If a
Range: header is present in the request, its value explictly
identifies the a time interval interval in which all the members
'updated' property must fall to be included in the response.
If the entry returned is subsequently changed the user agent can Range = "Range" ":" ranges-specifier
update the entry by submitting it via PUT to the EditURI. If an ETag
was returned with the creation of the entry then the user agent
SHOULD include an If-Match: header in the request that contains that
ETag.
3.1.3.2 Response code 303 The value of the Range: header should be a pair of ISO 8601 dates,
separated by a slash character; either date may be optionally
omitted, in which case the range is understood as stretching to
infinity on that end.
The body of this response does not contain the filled-in Entry, but ranges-specifier = updated-ranges-specifier
the filled-in Entry can be found under a different URI and can be updated-ranges-specifier = updated-unit "=" updated-range
retrieved using a GET method on that resource. The URI SHOULD be updated-unit = "updated"
given by the Location field in the response. updated-range = [iso-date] "/" [iso-date]
3.1.3.3 Response code 400 The response to a collection request MUST be a collection document,
all of whose 'member' elements fall within the requested range. If
no members fall in the requested range, the server MUST respond with
a collection document containing no 'member' elements.
Indicates that the server believes that the data sent constitutes an 3.1.3.2 Accept-Ranges: Header
invalid request. As an example, the data posted may not be
well-formed XML. The server SHOULD include an entity containing an
explanation of the error situation, and whether it is a temporary or
permanent condition.
3.1.3.4 Response code 409 The response to a non-partial GET request MUST include an
Accept-Ranges header that indicates that the server accepts 'updated'
range requests.
The request contained a valid Atom Entry, but it conflicts with state Accept-Ranges = "Accept-Ranges" ":" acceptable-ranges
on the server. The response SHOULD contain enough for information acceptable-ranges = updated-unit ( 1#range-unit )
for the user to resolve the conflict.
[[@@TBD@@ more about response body format]] 3.2 Introspection
3.1.3.5 Response code 500 There are many different kinds of resources that can be managed
through the APP, for example, entries, templates, users, etc. The
Service Document is a single document that lists all the facets of
the APP that a site supports and also contains the URIs of all those
resources.
Indicates that the server detected an internal error on the server 3.2.1 Service Document
processing this request (such as an unhandled exception). The server
SHOULD include an entity containing an explanation of the error
situation, and whether it is a temporary or permanent condition.
3.2 EditURI The Service Document lists the resources that each site makes
available. The Service Resource returns an Service Document in
response to a GET request. Here is an example of an Service
Document.
An EditURI is used to edit a single entry. Each entry that is <?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?>
<service version="0.3" xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#">
<workspace title="Main Site" >
<collection rel="entries" name="Entries"
href="http://example.org/reilly/feed" />
<collection rel="categories" name="Categories"
href="http://example.org/reilly/cat" />
<collection rel="templates" name="Templates"
href="http://example.org/reilly/tmpl" />
<collection rel="users" name="Users"
href="http://example.org/reilly/users" />
<collection rel="resource" name="Pictures"
href="http://example.org/reilly/pic" />
</workspace>
<workspace title="b-links">
<collection rel="entries" name="Entries"
href="http://example.org/reilly/feed" />
<collection rel="http://example.net/booklist" name="Books"
href="http://example.org/reilly/books" />
</workspace>
</service>
o entries
o resource
o categories
o templates
o users
The default for the rel attribute is 'resource'. Extensibility for
'rel' values is handled in the same manner as PaceFieldingLinks.
Each 'collection' element in 'workspace' represents a single facet of
the APP. While a site must fully support each facet they list in
their Service Document, a site does not need to support all the
facets in this RFC. Additionally, new facets may be added either
through vendor extension or follow-on RFCs.
3.2.1.1 Service Documet Elements
The "service" element is the document element of a Service Document,
acting as a container for service data associated with possibly
multiple workspaces. Its only child elements MUST be one or more
'workspace' elements. The 'service' element MUST have a single
attribute 'version' whose content indicates the version of the Atom
specification that the document conforms to. The content of this
attribute is unstructured text. The version identifier for this
specification is "1.0".
The 'workspace' element element contains information elements about
the collections of resources available for editing. The only
children of 'workspace' MUST be one or more "collection" elements.
The 'workspace' element MUST have a single attribute 'title' whose
content MUST NOT be empty and which is a human-readable name for the
workspace.
The 'collection' element describes various typed groups of resources
available for editing or adding to.
3.3 Entry Collection
Entries are managed through collections and as such entry collection
and entries that are members of a collection must support all the
operations enumerated above.
An Edit Resource is used to edit a single entry. Each entry that is
editable MUST have a unique URI. This URI supports both GET and PUT editable MUST have a unique URI. This URI supports both GET and PUT
and they are used in tandem for an editing cycle. The client GETs and they are used in tandem for an editing cycle. The client GETs
the representation which is formatted as an Atom entry. The client the representation which is formatted as an Atom entry. The client
may then update the entry and then PUT it back to the same URI. The may then update the entry and then PUT it back to the same URI. The
PUT will cause all the related resources to be updated, for example, PUT will cause all the related resources to be updated, for example,
the HTML representation. the HTML representation.
Note that the value of the content element in the Atom entry does not Note that the value of the content element in the Atom entry does not
have to exactly match the content element for the same entry when it have to exactly match the content element for the same entry when it
is represented in an Atom feed. For example, a server may allow the is represented in an Atom feed. For example, a server may allow the
client to post entries whose content is formatted as WikiML, yet the client to post entries whose content is formatted as WikiML, yet the
server may clean up such markup and transform it into well-formed server may clean up such markup and transform it into well-formed
XHTML before placing it in the publicly available Atom feed. Another XHTML before placing it in the publicly available Atom feed. Another
scenario is summaries--the EditURI is for editing the full content of scenario is summaries--the EditURI is for editing the full content of
an entry, but the server may only present excerpts when it produces an entry, but the server may only present excerpts when it produces
an Atom feed. an Atom feed.
A client will send a DELETE to the EditURI to delete an entry. A client will send a DELETE to the EditURI to delete an entry.
3.2.1 Locating 3.3.1 Locating
For editing a site Entry, the link tag is used. Note that a link tag For editing a site Entry, the link tag is used. Note that a link tag
is used in both HTML and in the Atom format. A link tag of the is used in both HTML and in the Atom format. A link tag of the
following format points to the EditURI for a site. In HTML, the link following format points to the EditURI for a site. In HTML, the link
tags for editing are always found in the head element, while in Atom tags for editing are always found in the head element, while in Atom
they may appear as children of the entry elements. they may appear as children of the entry elements.
<link rel="service.edit" <link rel="service.edit"
type="application/atom+xml" type="application/atom+xml"
href="URI for Editing goes here" href="URI for Editing goes here"
title="Readable desc of the entry." /> title="Readable desc of the entry." />
Note: The critical characteristic of this link tag is the @rel of Note: The critical characteristic of this link tag is the @rel of
'service.edit' and the @type of 'application/atom+xml'. 'service.edit' and the @type of 'application/atom+xml'.
3.2.2 Request 3.4 Simple Resource Collection
A PUT request, and a GET response both contain a filled-in Atom
entry, subject to the constraints in section Section 3.6.
The expected status codes from a GET are 200, 301, 307, and 500.
400, 404, and 410 are also possible.
The expected status codes from a PUT are 2xx, 301, 307, 500 and 501.
400, 404, 409, and 410 are also possible.
3.2.2.1 Successful Requests
Servers MUST indicate successful GET requests with a 200 response.
Servers MUST indicate successful PUT requests with a 2xx response.
Servers MAY include additional information in the PUT response.
Clients SHOULD NOT expect any additional information in a PUT
response.
3.2.2.2 Response code 301
The entry has moved permanently, the new URI is given in the Location
header. The client SHOULD retry the GET using the URI returned in
the Location header. When a PUT operation is attempted the user
agent should prompt the user before attempting the PUT on the URI
returned in the Location header.
3.2.2.3 Response code 307
The entry has moved temporarily, the new URI is given in the Location
header. The client SHOULD retry the GET using the URI returned in
the Location header. When a PUT operation is attempted the user
agent should prompt the user before attempting the PUT on the URI
returned in the Location header.
3.2.2.4 Response code 401
Indicates that the server believes that the data sent constitutes an
invalid request. As an example, the data posted may not be
well-formed XML. The server SHOULD include an entity containing an
explanation of the error situation, and whether it is a temporary or
permanent condition.
3.2.2.5 Response code 409
The request contained a valid Atom Entry, but it conflicts with the
state of the resource, or other state on the server.
For example, a server could signal that the client has erred in this
manner if it receives a request containing an atom:id element whose
value differs from that of the resource found at the requested URI.
The response SHOULD contain enough for information for the user to
resolve the conflict.
[[@@TBD@@ more about response body format ]]
3.2.2.6 Response code 410
Indicates that the requested resource is gone permanently. The
client SHOULD NOT repeat the request.
3.2.2.7 Response code 500
Indicates that the server detected an internal error on the server
processing this request (such as an unhandled exception). The server
SHOULD include an entity containing an explanation of the error
situation, and whether it is a temporary or permanent condition.
3.3 FeedURI
The FeedURI is used to retrieve a representation in Atom format.
Note that this feed is different from a typical Atom feed in that it
contains "link" elements for navigating and manipulating the content
of the site. For example there should be a "link" element with
rel="next" whose URI points to the next block of entries on the site.
Similarly, the feed element can contain a "link" element with
rel="service.post", the URI of which is a PostURI. Individual
entries should contain "link" elements with rel="service.edit" whose
URIs are EditURIs.
This document only uses some of the methods available for each type
of URI. For example, the only method described by this document for
the FeedURI is GET. Any other method may be supported by the URI
types described, but defining their behavior is beyond the scope of
this document. In this light you may notice that the PostURI only
supports the POST method. It is possible, and allowable, that for
some implementations the PostURI and the FeedURI are the same URI.
@@ Editor's Note: @@ Note that the "service.feed" takes the place of
the Introspection File and the Search facet in previous versions of
the specification. That is, facet discovery, which was previously
done by inspecting the Introspection file is now done by looking for
"link" tags with an attribute "rel" set to "service.[something]" in
the "service.feed" file. At the same time the same representation
replaces the search facet by having "link" tags that point to other
feeds using well-known 'rel' attribute values such as 'next' and
'prev', or the search can branch in multiple directions by specifying
multiple link tags with rel="service.feed" and having differing title
attributes that announce the kind of search results in that feed.
3.3.1 Locating
A link tag of the following format points to the FeedURI.
<link rel="service.feed"
type="application/atom+xml"
href="URI goes here"
title="The name of the site." />
3.3.2 Request
The request is a simple GET. No other verbs are currently specified
for this URI.
3.3.3 Response
The expected status codes from a GET are 200, 301, 307, and 500.
401, 404, and 410 are also possible.
3.3.3.1 Response code 301
The Feed has moved permanently, the new URI is given in the Location
header. The client SHOULD do a GET on the URI returned in the
Location header.
3.3.3.2 Response code 307
The Feed has moved temporarily, the new URI is given in the Location
header. The client SHOULD do a GET on the URI returned in the
Location header.
3.4 ResourcePostURI
The ResourcePostURI is used to create new non-entry resources. The Simple Resources are managed through collections and as such simple
client POSTs a resource of the desired MIME type directly to this reource collections and simple resources that are members of the
URI. collection must support all the operations enumerated above. Simple
Resources can be images, templates, and any other non-entry
resources.
3.4.1 Locating 3.4.1 Locating
For creating a new non-entry resource, the link tag is used. Note For creating a new non-entry resource, the link tag is used. Note
that a link tag is used in both HTML and in the Atom format. A link that a link tag is used in both HTML and in the Atom format. A link
tag of the following format points to the ResourcePostURI for a site. tag of the following format points to the ResourcePostURI for a site.
In HTML the link tags are always found in the head element, while in In HTML the link tags are always found in the head element, while in
Atom they may appear as children of the Feed and entry elements. Atom they may appear as children of the Feed and entry elements.
<link rel="resource.post" href="URI for Resource Posting goes here" <link rel="resource.post" href="URI for Resource Posting goes here"
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The request contains a resource, sent through a standard HTTP POST, The request contains a resource, sent through a standard HTTP POST,
e.g.: e.g.:
POST /_do/exampleblog/post_resource HTTP/1.1 POST /_do/exampleblog/post_resource HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com Host: www.example.com
Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: nnn Content-Length: nnn
...raw bytes of image go here... ...raw bytes of image go here...
3.4.3 Response 3.5 Atom Request and Response Body Constraints
The expected status codes from a POST are 201, 303, 400, 415, and
500. 401, 404, 409, and 410 are also possible.
3.4.3.1 Response code 201
The response MUST include a Location: header with the URI of the
created resource, i.e. the URI used to retrieve the resource
representation in a subsequent HTTP GET. The server SHOULD omit the
content of the resource in the response, since it would be redundant
to return it to the client.
3.4.3.2 Response code 303
Similar to 201 but no caching is allowed. The response MUST include
a Location: header.
3.4.3.3 Response code 400
Indicates that the server believes that the data sent constitutes an
invalid request. The server SHOULD include an entity containing an
explanation of the error situation, and whether it is a temporary or
permanent condition.
3.4.3.4 Response code 415
The MIME type of the request entity is not supported by the server
for this resource.
The response SHOULD contain enough for information for the user to
resolve the conflict.
[[@@TBD@@ more about response body format ]]
3.4.3.5 Response code 500
Indicates that the server detected an internal error on the server
processing this request (such as an unhandled exception). A short
description of the error will appear on the status line itself. A
longer description will appear in the body.
3.5 Link Tag
The link tag is used in both HTML and Atom formats. There are slight
differences between the two usages. Here are the commonalities,
differences, and a list of well-known values for the rel attribute.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-LINK> appears in
the 'head' of the document. The 'head' section only allows a linear
list of 'link' tags. The Atom format allows 'link' tags as children
of both the 'feed' element and of the 'entry' element. Note that
this gives the information present in the link tag more context. For
example ... @@ TBD @@
3.5.1 rel
This attribute describes the relationship from the current document,
be it HTML or Atom, to the anchor specified by the href attribute.
The value of this attribute is a space-separated list of link types.
Note that these values are case insensitive. When used in concert
with type="application/atom+xml", the relations may be interpreted as
follows.
alternate: The URI in the href attribute points to an alternate
representation of the containing resource.
start: The Atom feed at the URI supplied in the href attribute
contains the first feed in a linear sequence of entries.
next: The Atom feed at the URI supplied in the href attribute
contains the next N entries in a linear sequence of entries.
prev: The Atom feed at the URI supplied in the href attribute
contains the previous N entries in a linear sequence of entries.
service.edit: The URI given in the href attribute is used to edit a
representation of the referred resource.
service.post: The URI in the href attribute is used to create new
resources.
service.feed: The URI given in the href attribute is a starting point
for navigating content and services.
3.5.2 href
URI of the resource being described by this link element.
3.5.3 title
Offers advisory information about the link. Rendered to the user to
help them choose among a set of links with the same rel and type
attributes.
3.5.4 type
The content type of the resource available at the URI given in the
href attribute of the link element. Most of the link types in this
specification are on type 'application/atom+xml'.
3.6 Atom Request and Response Body Constraints
The Atom format is used as the representation of all the resources in The Atom format is used as the representation of all the resources in
this specification. As it is used in differing contexts, there are this specification. As it is used in differing contexts, there are
different constraints of which elements may be present, and how their different constraints of which elements may be present, and how their
values should be interpreted. values should be interpreted.
3.6.1 id 3.5.1 id
PostURI MUST NOT be present. PostURI MUST NOT be present.
FeedURI MUST be present. FeedURI MUST be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MUST be present. GET MUST be present.
PUT MUST be present. PUT MUST be present.
3.6.2 link 3.5.2 link
PostURI MAY be present. Servers MAY use the information to determine PostURI MAY be present. Servers MAY use the information to determine
the URI of the created resource. Relative URLs are to be the URI of the created resource. Relative URLs are to be
interpreted relative to xml:base. interpreted relative to xml:base.
FeedURI MUST be present. FeedURI MUST be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MUST be present. GET MUST be present.
PUT MUST be present. PUT MUST be present.
3.6.3 title 3.5.3 title
PostURI MUST be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly PostURI MUST be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly
indicate "no title". Servers SHOULD NOT try to generate a title indicate "no title". Servers SHOULD NOT try to generate a title
if one is not provided. The type attribute MAY be present, and if if one is not provided. The type attribute MAY be present, and if
not it defaults to "text/plain". If present, it MUST represent a not it defaults to "text/plain". If present, it MUST represent a
MIME type that the server supports. The mode attribute MAY be MIME type that the server supports. The mode attribute MAY be
present. If not present, it defaults to "xml". If present, it present. If not present, it defaults to "xml". If present, it
MUST be "xml", "base64", or "escaped". MUST be "xml", "base64", or "escaped".
FeedURI MUST be present. FeedURI MUST be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MUST be present. GET MUST be present.
PUT MUST be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly PUT MUST be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly
indicate "no title". Servers SHOULD NOT try to generate a indicate "no title". Servers SHOULD NOT try to generate a
title if one is not provided. title if one is not provided.
3.6.4 summary 3.5.4 summary
PostURI MAY be present. If not present, the server is welcome to PostURI MAY be present. If not present, the server is welcome to
produce its own summary. If present but empty, the server SHOULD produce its own summary. If present but empty, the server SHOULD
NOT generate a summary of its own. The type attribute MAY be NOT generate a summary of its own. The type attribute MAY be
present. If not, it defaults to "text/plain". If present, it present. If not, it defaults to "text/plain". If present, it
must represent a MIME type that the server supports. The mode must represent a MIME type that the server supports. The mode
attribute MAY be present and defaults to "xml". If present, it attribute MAY be present and defaults to "xml". If present, it
must be "xml","base64", or "escaped". must be "xml","base64", or "escaped".
FeedURI MAY be present. FeedURI MAY be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MAY be present. GET MAY be present.
PUT MAY be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly PUT MAY be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly
indicate "no summary". Servers SHOULD NOT try to generate a indicate "no summary". Servers SHOULD NOT try to generate a
title if one is not provided. title if one is not provided.
3.6.5 content 3.5.5 content
PostURI MAY be present but may be empty, to explicitly indicate "no PostURI MAY be present but may be empty, to explicitly indicate "no
content". The type attribute MAY be present, but defaults to content". The type attribute MAY be present, but defaults to
"text/plain" if not present. It must represent a MIME type that "text/plain" if not present. It must represent a MIME type that
the server supports. The MODE attribute may be present and the server supports. The MODE attribute may be present and
defaults to "xml" if not present. It must be "xml","base64", or defaults to "xml" if not present. It must be "xml","base64", or
"escaped". "escaped".
FeedURI MAY be present. FeedURI MAY be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MAY be present. GET MAY be present.
PUT MAY be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly PUT MAY be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly
indicate "no content". indicate "no content".
3.6.6 issued 3.5.6 issued
PostURI MUST be present, but may be empty, in which case it signifies PostURI MUST be present, but may be empty, in which case it signifies
"now" in the time zone of the server. "now" in the time zone of the server.
FeedURI MUST be present. FeedURI MUST be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MUST be present. GET MUST be present.
PUT MUST be present. Server policy determines if an updated time PUT MUST be present. Server policy determines if an updated time
is accepted. is accepted.
3.6.7 modified 3.5.7 modified
PostURI MUST NOT be present. PostURI MUST NOT be present.
FeedURI MAY be present. FeedURI MAY be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MAY be present. GET MAY be present.
PUT MAY be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly PUT MAY be present. The element may be empty, to explicitly
indicate that 'now' on the server time is to be used. indicate that 'now' on the server time is to be used.
3.6.8 created 3.5.8 created
PostURI MAY be present. PostURI MAY be present.
FeedURI MAY be present. FeedURI MAY be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MAY be present. GET MAY be present.
PUT MAY be present. The server may or may not accept an updated PUT MAY be present. The server may or may not accept an updated
value. If the server does not allow updating the issued time value. If the server does not allow updating the issued time
then any PUT request with a different issued value MUST be then any PUT request with a different issued value MUST be
rejected. rejected.
3.6.9 author 3.5.9 author
PostURI MAY be present. If not present, the server determines the PostURI MAY be present. If not present, the server determines the
author. If present, and conflicting with valid values as author. If present, and conflicting with valid values as
determined by the server, then the server may change the value of determined by the server, then the server may change the value of
author. author.
FeedURI MAY be present. FeedURI MAY be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MAY be present. GET MAY be present.
PUT MAY be present. PUT MAY be present.
3.6.10 contributor 3.5.10 contributor
PostURI MAY be present. PostURI MAY be present.
FeedURI MAY be present. FeedURI MAY be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MAY be present. GET MAY be present.
PUT MAY be present. PUT MAY be present.
3.6.11 generator 3.5.11 generator
PostURI MUST be present and contain a URI. The value of the element PostURI MUST be present and contain a URI. The value of the element
indicates the code base used to create this request. MUST also indicates the code base used to create this request. MUST also
have an attribute 'version' with a version number. have an attribute 'version' with a version number.
FeedURI MUST NOT be present. FeedURI MUST NOT be present.
EditURI EditURI
GET MUST NOT be present. GET MUST NOT be present.
PUT MUST NOT be present. PUT MUST NOT be present.
3.7 Securing the Atom Protocol 3.6 Securing the Atom Protocol
All instances of publishing Atom entries SHOULD be protected by All instances of publishing Atom entries SHOULD be protected by
authentication to prevent posting or editing by unknown sources. authentication to prevent posting or editing by unknown sources.
Atom servers and clients MUST support one of the following Atom servers and clients MUST support one of the following
authentication mechanisms, and SHOULD support both. authentication mechanisms, and SHOULD support both.
o HTTP Digest Authentication [RFC2617] o HTTP Digest Authentication [RFC2617]
o [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication ref] o [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication ref]
Atom servers and clients MAY support encryption of the Atom session Atom servers and clients MAY support encryption of the Atom session
using TLS [RFC2246]. using TLS [RFC2246].
There are cases where an authentication mechanism may not be There are cases where an authentication mechanism may not be
required, such as a publicly editable Wiki, or when using the PostURI required, such as a publicly editable Wiki, or when using the PostURI
to post comments to a site that does not require authentication to to post comments to a site that does not require authentication to
create comments. create comments.
3.7.1 [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication] 3.6.1 [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication]
This authentication method is included as part of the protocol to This authentication method is included as part of the protocol to
allow Atom servers and clients that cannot use HTTP Digest allow Atom servers and clients that cannot use HTTP Digest
Authentication but where the user can both insert its own HTTP Authentication but where the user can both insert its own HTTP
headers and create a CGI program to authenticate entries to the headers and create a CGI program to authenticate entries to the
server. This scenario is common in environments where the user server. This scenario is common in environments where the user
cannot control what services the server employs, but the user can cannot control what services the server employs, but the user can
write their own HTTP services. write their own HTTP services.
4. Security Considerations 4. Security Considerations
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the 'introspection' file. 1. Creating a new entry 2. Finding an the 'introspection' file. 1. Creating a new entry 2. Finding an
old entry 3. editing an old entry 4. commenting on a entry (via old entry 3. editing an old entry 4. commenting on a entry (via
HTML and Atom) HTML and Atom)
7.2 Example for a wiki 7.2 Example for a wiki
Fill this in like above but for a wiki. Fill this in like above but for a wiki.
8. Revision History 8. Revision History
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-03 - Incorporates PaceSliceAndDice3 and
PaceIntrospection.
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-02 - Incorporates Pace409Response, draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-02 - Incorporates Pace409Response,
PacePostLocationMust, and PaceSimpleResourcePosting. PacePostLocationMust, and PaceSimpleResourcePosting.
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-01 - Added in sections on Responses for draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-01 - Added in sections on Responses for
the EditURI. Allow 2xx for response to EditURI PUTs. Elided all the EditURI. Allow 2xx for response to EditURI PUTs. Elided all
mentions of WSSE. Started adding in some normative references. mentions of WSSE. Started adding in some normative references.
Added the section "Securing the Atom Protocol". Clarified that it is Added the section "Securing the Atom Protocol". Clarified that it is
possible that the PostURI and FeedURI could be the same URI. Cleaned possible that the PostURI and FeedURI could be the same URI. Cleaned
up descriptions for Response codes 400 and 500. up descriptions for Response codes 400 and 500.
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instead they are retrieved via GET. Cleaned up figure titles, as instead they are retrieved via GET. Cleaned up figure titles, as
they are rendered poorly in HTML. All content-types have been they are rendered poorly in HTML. All content-types have been
changed to application/atom+xml. changed to application/atom+xml.
Rev 01 - 5Jul2003 - Renamed from EchoAPI.html to follow the more Rev 01 - 5Jul2003 - Renamed from EchoAPI.html to follow the more
commonly used format: draft-gregorio-NN.html. Renamed all references commonly used format: draft-gregorio-NN.html. Renamed all references
to URL to URI. Broke out introspection into it's own section. Added to URL to URI. Broke out introspection into it's own section. Added
the Revision History section. Added more to the warning that the the Revision History section. Added more to the warning that the
example URIs are not normative. example URIs are not normative.
9 Normative References 9. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2246] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0", [RFC2246] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0",
RFC 2246, January 1999. RFC 2246, January 1999.
[RFC2396] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, "Uniform [RFC2396] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 2396, Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 2396,
August 1998. August 1998.
[RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., [RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
Masinter, L., Leach, P. and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Masinter, L., Leach, P. and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999. Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.
[RFC2617] Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P., Hostetler, J., Lawrence, S., [RFC2617] Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P., Hostetler, J., Lawrence, S.,
Leach, P., Luotonen, A. and L. Stewart, "HTTP Leach, P., Luotonen, A. and L. Stewart, "HTTP
Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication", Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication",
RFC 2617, June 1999. RFC 2617, June 1999.
[1] <http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/index.html>
Authors' Addresses Authors' Addresses
Joe Gregorio (editor) Joe Gregorio (editor)
BitWorking, Inc BitWorking, Inc
1002 Heathwood Dairy Rd. 1002 Heathwood Dairy Rd.
Apex, NC 27502 Apex, NC 27502
US US
Phone: +1 919 272 3764 Phone: +1 919 272 3764
EMail: joe@bitworking.com Email: joe@bitworking.com
URI: http://bitworking.com/ URI: http://bitworking.com/
Robert Sayre (editor) Robert Sayre (editor)
Boswijck Memex Consulting Boswijck Memex Consulting
148 N 9th St. 4R 148 N 9th St. 4R
Brooklyn, NY 11211 Brooklyn, NY 11211
US US
EMail: rfsayre@boswijck.com Email: rfsayre@boswijck.com
URI: http://boswijck.com URI: http://boswijck.com
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