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Re: Excess URI schemes considered harmful

From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:43:58 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200109261343.JAA17748@markbaker.ca>
To: michael@neonym.net
Cc: uri@w3.org 
> It might be 'real life' in the hypertext world but as we've already
> found out it causes real interoperability problems when those
> URIs escape their context....

I thought HTML forms over POST do a good job at this.  No grounding of
field names is required, because the context in which they're interpreted
is explicitly provided (the "action" URI).

No interop problems there.

MB
Received on Wednesday, 26 September 2001 09:42:04 GMT

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