Re: Standardizing Firefox's Implementation of Link Fingerprints

On 7/2/07, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
> Adding metadata to a URI that is orthogonal to its identifying purpose
> duplicates the space of references and splits the power of the resulting
> resources.

Link Fingerprints are used to identify a particular version of a
resource; if the Link Fingerprint does not match up, it's as if the
resource was not found. In that sense, it strengthens the URI's
ability to identify resources.

Ed

Received on Tuesday, 10 July 2007 21:49:57 UTC