Link

Specifies a link relationship between documents.

Link typically specifies a relationship @rel from the current document to another document; Link can also be used to specify a relationship @rev from other documents to this one, or between any two documents using @about.

Links found in this header have the same semantic meaning as links found in hypermedia (HTML) documents themselves.

Overview table

Name

Link

Description

Attaches a link to the message.

Direction

Both

Specification

RFC 7231: Web Linking

Parsing

Node.js

• http-link
• parse-links
• https://github.com/wombleton/link-headers
• https://github.com/backbone-paginator/backbone-pageable/blob/master/lib/backbone-pageable.js

Syntax

Link       = #link-value
link-value = "<" URI-Reference ">" *( OWS ";" OWS link-param )
link-param = token BWS [ "=" BWS ( token / quoted-string ) ]

Example

Link: <http://example.com/TheBook/chapter2> rel="previous"; title="previous chapter"