- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:38:19 +0100
- To: Seth Russell <russell.seth@gmail.com>
- Cc: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
On 8 Jul 2009, at 19:58, Seth Russell wrote: > Is it not true that everything past the hash (#alice) is not > transmitted back to the server when a browser clicks on a > hyperlink ? If that is true, then the server would not be able to > serve anything different if a browser clicked upon http:// > example.com/foaf.rdf or if they clicked upon http://example.com/ > foaf.rdf#alice . Indeed - the server doesn't see the fragment. > If that is true, and it probably isn't, then is not the Semantic > Web crippled from using that techniqe to distinguish between > resources and at the same time hyper linking between those > different resources? Not at all. Is the web of documents crippled because the server can't distinguish between requests for http://example.com/document.html and http:// example.com/document.html#part2 ? Of course it isn't - the server doesn't need to distinguish between them - it serves up the same web page either way and lets the user agent distinguish. Hash URIs are very valuable in linked data, precisely *because* they can't be directly requested from a server - they allow us to bypass the whole HTTP 303 issue. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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