Re: i109: Clarify entity / representation / variant terminology

On May 9, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> But not every entity transferred over HTTP is a representation of a  
> resource. Example: the response body sent with a 404 status.

It is a representation of a 404 response.

   <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/ 
rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_2_1_2>

   Depending on the message control data, a given representation may
   indicate the current state of the requested resource, the desired
   state for the requested resource, or the value of some other  
resource,
   such as a representation of the input data within a client's query
   form, or a representation of some error condition for a response.

....Roy