- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 03:52:06 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Larry Masinter scripsit:
>
> One caution: many people think they want a URI to talk about
> a "media type" (like 'text/html') when, on examination, their
> application actually needs to know a "content-type string"
> (like 'text/html;charset=iso-8859-1').
[snip]
> While it's easy to imagine constructing "http://iana.org"
> URIs whose resources bear some descriptive relationship
> to the former, it's harder to figure out how to encode
> the latter.
What's wrong with just changing the semicolon to a question mark?
If you want a canonical URI, sort the parameters by name.
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
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