- From: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:30:55 +0200
- To: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Am 01.08.2007 um 19:02 schrieb Marc Hadley:
> I'd be interested to hear more about the use case for a URI
> template that behaves in this way. E.g. I'd expect that:
>
> http://www.example.com/
> http://www.example.com/foo/
>
> would identify two quite different resources, whereas:
>
> http://www.example.com/foo/
> http://www.example.com/bar/
>
> *could* identify two instances of particular kind of resource. I'd
> like to understand what is the planned use for a URI template that
> can resolve to either of the first pair - why wouldn't you use two
> different URI templates ?
I cannot speak for Mike. What I can see as use case would be a
template describing a site's structure like
http://www.example.com/pictures/{user?}/{theme?}/
which is then used to generate
http://www.example.com/pictures/dan/cars/ - all of dan's car pics
http://www.example.com/pictures/dan/ - all of dan's pics
and maybe even
http://www.example.com/pictures/ - all of pics of all users
Of course this could also be done by using query parameters, but
without the uris are easier to remember. I hope this explains it a bit.
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Stefan Eissing
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