- From: Jan Algermissen <jalgermissen@topicmapping.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:45:13 +0100
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: "'www-tag@w3.org'" <www-tag@w3.org>
Tim Bray wrote: > > RSS feeds are ordinary web resources and have ordinary URIs. For > example: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.rss is one, and as the > scheme suggests, is typically fetched via HTTP and there's lots of > scope for caching and all the usual helpful HTTP machinery. However, > there's a lot of talk in the RSS community recently about wanting a new > URI scheme, e.g. feed://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.rss. The reason > is that they want to be able to click on one of these things and wake > up the RSS client to read it and potentially subscribe. You really > can't do this with MIME types Hmm...this confuses me - isnt't dispatching to the right application one of the primary uses/purposes of mime-types? > because the RSS client doesn't need the > representation, it needs the URI. What do you mean by "it needs the URI"? Jan -- Jan Algermissen http://www.topicmapping.com Consultant & Programmer http://www.gooseworks.org
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