FHIR Chat · Location or Content-Location header

Stream: implementers

Topic: Location or Content-Location header

Jared Davison (Sep 06 2017 at 03:12):

Hi, I have noticed an implementation has a Content-Location header, but not a Location header in the FHIR response.
I found the follow page which discusses the distinction between them.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Location
"Location and Content-Location are different. Location indicates the URL of a redirect, while Content-Location indicates the direct URL to use to access the resource, without further content negotiation in the future. Location is a header associated with the response, while Content-Location is associated with the data returned. This distinction may seem abstract without examples."

I searched this page http://build.fhir.org/http.html for location header, but found no mentioned of Content-Location.

what should we use?

Grahame Grieve (Sep 06 2017 at 07:51):

in a response to what?

Jared Davison (Sep 06 2017 at 07:59):

it was a response to a ProviderRole search that I saw the Content-Location header

Grahame Grieve (Sep 06 2017 at 08:04):

we don't describe any use of a location header in response to a search

Jared Davison (Sep 06 2017 at 08:04):

I'm not even sure that we need a Location header as a response to the search on a resource from the api doc on search. the table at the bottom of the http restful api page suggests it is only needed for Create or Update