Update README.md to include sentence of how clients shall interpret l…

…ast page (#450) added sentence about how to handle last pages by omitting the corresponding link relations in the result. Co-authored-by: Matthias Mohr <[email protected]>
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@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ The href may contain any arbitrary URL parameter:
 Implementations may also add link relations `prev`, `first`, and `last`, though these are not required and may
 be infeasible to implement in some data stores.
 
+Clients shall interpret the absence of a link with the relation type `next` as an indication that the response represents the last page of results.
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 OAFeat does not support POST requests for searches, however the STAC API spec does. Hypermedia links are not designed
 for anything other than GET requests, so providing a next link for a POST search request becomes problematic. STAC has
 decided to extend the Link object to support additional fields that provide hints to the client as to how it must