Must links also return application/health responses?

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Must links also return application/health responses?

kalexmills opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Some discussion about recursively performing healthcheck of downstream components has come up. We would like to clarify whether links mentioned in responses of type application/health are expected to return application/health content or not.

If they do, it could enable automated crawling of a system's health.

Alex Mills · Answer 1 · Thu Sep 19 2019 21:37:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Related to #69

Steve Moyer · Answer 2 · Thu Sep 19 2019 23:09:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Also related to #51 (to make the crawling easier) and #5 which suggests that a specific rel should be used to indicate the Check's link is itself a healthcheck.

ThB-bmiag · Answer 3 · Fri Nov 08 2019 05:04:26 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Seems to be not too useless ;-) ...
In fact, a German Standardisation Organisation in insurance context, named BiPRO, is checking whether to design their Health Check Service definition refering and accordingly to this RFC - for that, it needs to be possible to have recursive structures in the dependency tree...