- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:53:47 +0100
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, <tabulator@csail.MIT.EDU>
303 redirection and the FF tabulator extension have an interesting little interaction that it may be useful to highlight. (Pardon me if this is well-known, and pardon me if I have got it wrong.) If you start at something like http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/21 you get the redirect as expected to http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/hg >From there you get to the RDF that Nick Gibbons ( http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1269 ) has been working on for us at http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/21 and http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/role/21 However, on looking at the role rdf, it may seem that a lot is missing. The reason is that the domain has changed to id.ecs.soton.ac.uk, quite correctly, and the content negotiation will take you back to rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk when necessary. So if you are running with the higher security (signed.applets.codebase_principal_support false) you won't see such stuff. It is a bit surprising, as a user would sort of expect to see the same information as the web page, even with higher security. We have spent quite a long time discussing just where the "rdf", "role", "person", "desc" or whatever word goes in the URI. So is www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/id better than id.ecs.soton.ac.uk, for example? For FF extensions perhaps it is. Anyway, I thought I would raise it, as it may be something that people might like to bear in mind when minting URIs. And in the future we may well see other applications that suffer a similar problem of requiring lower security to be able to run off what is effectively a single site. Best Hugh -- Hugh Glaser, Reader Dependable Systems & Software Engineering School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ Work: +44 (0)23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3045 Mobile: +44 (0)78 9422 3822, Home: +44 (0)23 8061 5652 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/
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