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