Must links also return application/health responses?

[kalexmills]

Some discussion about recursively performing healthcheck of downstream components has come up. We would like to clarify whether links mentioned in responses of type application/health are expected to return application/health content or not.

If they do, it could enable automated crawling of a system's health.

[kalexmills]

Related to #69

[smoyer64]

Also related to #51 (to make the crawling easier) and #5 which suggests that a specific rel should be used to indicate the Check's link is itself a healthcheck.

[ThB-bmiag]

Seems to be not too useless ;-) ...
In fact, a German Standardisation Organisation in insurance context, named BiPRO, is checking whether to design their Health Check Service definition refering and accordingly to this RFC - for that, it needs to be possible to have recursive structures in the dependency tree...