- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:05:56 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com
- CC: ij@w3.org
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, 8:55:28 AM, Patrick wrote: >> 2.1 Site metadata hook >> >> [Chris] there is no way to give a URI of a site as opposed to a URI >> for a welcome page for it hmm... sites are significant resources, >> no? so they should have URIs..... >> >> [Roy] >> / PSnc> I would propose that PSnc> http://example.com denotes the HTTP server PSnc> thus PSnc> <http://example.com> a x:WebServer . PSnc> and that a separate URI scheme is needed to denote PSnc> actual physical machine, No, that is not the distinction I was trying to draw. Not between the site and a machine, but between a site and a page. http://example.com/ is the URI of a page, with a length and content and so on. It may also, informally, for humans that can resolve the ambiguity and overloading, be used to refer to the entire site. For machines, this is not sufficient. Currently, the concept of 'a site' is poorly defined and impossible to cleanly reference, this was my point. PSnc> When one does a GET on either http://example.com or PSnc> http://example.com/ we are simply redirected to a default home PSnc> web page, Its a welcome page not a home page, and it might not be a redirect. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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