Re: Is 303 really necessary - demo

Mike Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
>> Ian Davis wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> To aid discussion I create a small demo of the idea put forth in my
>>> blog post http://iand.posterous.com/is-303-really-necessary
>>>
>>> Here is the URI of a toucan:
>>>
>>> http://iandavis.com/2010/303/toucan
>> Ian, where's the demo of /toucan#frag so everybody can see that you can use
>> 200 OK *and* keep the graph clean? will you give it fair air time in the
>> (non-)debate? will you show us a comparison of the two and benefits of each?
>>
>>> does this break the web  and if so, how?
>> Of course it doesn't break the web, anybody who says that being HTTP
>> friendly breaks the web is clearly wrong.
>>
>> Wrong question, correct question is "if I 200 OK will people think this is a
>> document", to which the answer is yes. You're toucan is a :Document.
>>
> 
> That assertion would be wrong if the response contained a
> Content-Location header pointing to the specific document resource.

http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/154

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