How can I access the ACL for a Document created in a Container?

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To get the location of an existing Document’s ACL file, we look at the Link header sent when requesting that Document.

I can create a new Document by POSTing to a Container. Its response also includes a Link header; however, that points to the ACL of the Container.

Is there a way to get the ACL of that newly created Document without sending another HTTP request to that Document?

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Apart from a Link header, the response of the POST will also have a Location header, pointed to the newly created resource.

Retrieve that with a GET or a HEAD to get the Link header pointing you from the newly created resource to its acl.

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Yeah that’s what I meant by “without sending another HTTP request to that Document”, but I guess I’ll do that then :slight_smile: Thanks!

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You may want to look at Solid-File-Client’s getItemLinks() method which does a HEAD, finds, and parses the links.

   let links = await fc.getItemLinks( url )
   let aclLocation = links.acl
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