- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:06:35 -0400
- To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> But then I'm not sure why you mentioned that people should be using C-L in > cases of shortcutting ".../" URIs to ".../index.html", rather than using > redirection. Or did I misunderstand you? I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "shortcutting". It could mean one of two things; 1. Equivalence When I want to communicate an equivalence relationship between two resources, I use redirection. Here's an example that I used last year. This URI identifies my definition of "brilliance"; http://www.markbaker.ca/2001/11/Brilliance/ It is a temporary redirect, which means that I reserve the right to change my definition later. If I used a permanent redirect, I'm telling the client that you can forget about my URI and just use the dictionary.com one. 2. Delegation of representation In this case, a resource chooses to use another resource as its representation, at least for that request. So there's definitely some similarities, but really, they're two different mechanisms for solving different problems. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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