Comment 10 for bug 316694

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:36 +0000, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> Should it really be part of the representation? Why not implement it in
> the client-side API.

Because the implementation changes. If we had already implemented it in
the client-side API, our implementation would become incomplete when I
land the multi-version branch. Implementing URL generation on the server
lets us change it however we want. Especially because the trend is for
the implementation to become more complex over time.

I don't believe that this is an incredibly powerful argument here,
because it's unlikely this implementation will _keep_ changing or become
_very_ complex, but this is why we send links in general instead of
defining rules and having the clients implement those rules.