- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:32:48 -0700
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Dan Connolly wrote: > Whether http URIs can identify cars and such or not isn't observable > from the HTTP protocol itself. Indeed. And given that the server can decide to send back whatever it $#^!%#&!@ well wants to (and I've written a lot of server code that uses some *very* non-obvious inputs in deciding what to emit in response to a URI)... And given that outside of RDF, the Web architecture has no built-in way at all to talk about what a resource "is"... the only world-view that makes sense to me is what my section 1.1 draft says, a resource is just whatever it happens to be, you can get representations of it by asking (sometimes), and you can make assertions about it regardless of whatever it "is", whatever "is" means, whatever "means" means, and neatly dodge all the metaphysical bushwah. And the more I think about it, the less I can believe in any special distinguished status or limitations for HTTP URIs, aside from noting the obvious fact that they have the useful advantage of a well-defined builtin protocol for requesting/receiving representations. -Tim
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