Re: now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on httpRange-14)

...You can explain what HTTP *really* is until you're
> hoarse and your carpal tunnel syndrome becomes chronic, but that won't
> change the "reality" that 99.999% of the URLs (I use the term advisedly)
> people come across identify some bag of bits on the web, and not (to their
> way of thinking) a "method of defining the naming authority and name
within
> that authority."

I don't accept this. I suspect that 99.9 % of folks who type

www.travelocity.com

are thinking about booking an airline ticket (or hotel room etc.) and not
... hmm... I wonder if travelocity has updated their home page with new
graphics ...

same for:

http://www.ebay.com/.../item=12132xxxxx123123

that probably is associated with some _object_ that folks are hotly bidding
on i.e. it represents _an item in an auction_, not a web page ... unless of
course you are the 0.0001% of folks that are trying to purchase a web page
from ebay.

Jonathan

Received on Tuesday, 8 October 2002 23:38:45 UTC