Whether or not that's more efficient boils down to how much the server can predict the client's behavior though, right? I'm just thinking that if the server wa

Whether or not that's more efficient boils down to how much the server can predict the client's behavior though, right? I'm just thinking that if the server was configured to respond with the /value/ reference and then immediately follow that up with the resource, your client doesn't really have much say in how noisy the conversation is over the wire.