- From: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:35:21 +1300
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > > Mark Nottingham wrote: >> >> I've only seen a few responses to one aspect of this, so I'll restate >> as a set of proposals. >> >> ... >> >> PROPOSAL: Remove 'requested variant' from terminology and define >> 'selected representation' as (roughly): "The representation that >> would be returned by the server if the request method were GET, >> taking into consideration selecting headers, as specified by the Vary >> header's payload." > > +1 > Quick question (hopefully) - what's the difference between "representation" in this case and "entity"? I feel I'm missing something. I like the reinforcement that it's the provider (server) that chooses what to provide. Thanks Adrien
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