On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:48:51AM -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > A GET is a rather direct mechanism for retrieving a representation, and > while it works for HTTP, I'm not sure it _should_ work for every other > flavor of URI. HTTP isn't necessarily "direct". I can ask any HTTP node (server or intermediary) to resolve any URI on my behalf. This is how caches, firewalls, gateways, and other intermediaries work. Perhaps we can take this to www-archive (reply-to set). MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.comReceived on Friday, 12 April 2002 11:24:48 GMT
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