Re: content negotiation anti-principle

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 06:04 pm, Jeremy Dunck wrote:
> What was the original rationale for negotation?  To me, it is a way to make
> resource dependencies less brittle, and to allow variance in UA support.

That's right, but for many common cases, this is really less of an issue. In 
1994-1995, the rationale was much more clearly valid.

> The missing piece, to me, is making it obvious to the linker what, exactly,
> a particular resource represents, so that they can intelligently choose
> which (less generic) URI they might find most useful.

Right. There is no way to distinguish "generic" from "specific" resources, and 
even with http://foo.com/foo.jpg, where the specitivity is "apparent" you 
don't *really* know what you're going to get. 

That last part also leads to fragility.

Received on Wednesday, 8 January 2003 21:02:12 UTC