Re: LDP a replacement for WebDav?

On 4/11/17 4:32 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 4/11/17 1:39 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> One would not, for example, mount an RDF file system.  (One might
>> browse a distributed collection of Linked Data using a browser with a
>> semantic data plug-in installed.)
> Hi Miles,
>
> You could mount an LDP Container (a/k/a Folder) via an LDP compliant
> app. Net effect, richer metadata for file/document browsing.
>
> Example:
>
> curl -ikLH "Origin: http://example.com" -H "Accept: text/turtle"
> https://id.myopenlink.net/DAV/home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/RWW/
>
> Due to broad OS support of WebDAV (which isn't the case for LDP, right
> now) we combine the use both in our RWW solutions.
>
>
Well yes, but that's not the intent of LDP or it's standard use. More 
fundamentally - it's NOT a replacement for WebDAV, nor was it intended 
as one.

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Received on Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:41:25 UTC