Re: i109: Clarify entity / representation / variant terminology

Stefan Eissing wrote:
> For me, "entity" is part of the message and "representation" is part of 
> the resource. So, for my (probably soon corrected by the big guns here) 
> incomplete gut-http-feeling, it makes sense to say things like: The 
> representation of a resource is transferred as the entity in a HTTP 
> response message.

+1

But not every entity transferred over HTTP is a representation of a 
resource. Example: the response body sent with a 404 status.

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 9 May 2008 14:02:57 UTC