Link support

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reading RFC5988 and reviewing the prior attempts in pull requests 67, 91, and 113. Then locate the current Link-related implementation and tests in the repository; done means Link support is re-enabled with behavior covered by the existing test suite.

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Description

The Link header, defined in RFC5988. It was supported in older versions, but was since then disabled in a514a37073b9fc19bde1fe00ee58d599e8c67c0d.

There were a few attempts to reenable the Link header, but they were never completed, here they are from oldest to most recent:

It would be good to finish the work and enable Link support.

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