Provide a way for a client to discover the configuration used to resolve a request

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      Update: current suggestion is to undo the following change.

      The following text was added to the draft spec:

      Where the response to a GET is a single versioned resource, the server SHOULD include a <code>Configuration-Context</code> header indicating the precise configuration in which that resource was found.
      Note this is frequently not the same as the context on the request: the context on the request is likely to be a global configuration, while the context on the response, if present, MUST be the leaf-level provider-specific configuration contributed to the requested context.

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      Update: current suggestion is to undo the following change. The following text was added to the draft spec: Where the response to a GET is a single versioned resource, the server SHOULD include a <code>Configuration-Context</code> header indicating the precise configuration in which that resource was found. Note this is frequently not the same as the context on the request: the context on the request is likely to be a global configuration, while the context on the response, if present, MUST be the leaf-level provider-specific configuration contributed to the requested context.

      The spec allows a client to provide a configuration context using either a header or a query string, but there is no way for the client to discover if this configuration was actually used, or which contribution to a global configuration was used, to satisfy the request.

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            Nick Crossley (Inactive)
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