Re: Alternative to 303 response: Description-ID: header

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 01:56 +0000, Ian Davis wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 19:53 -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> > 
> > I did wonder about the following:  in the case when the URI is not of  
> > document, when currently we use 303,
> > then the  server can return a document *about* it with  an extra  
> > header to explain to the browser
> > that it is actually giving you a description of it not the content of  
> > it.  (Pick a header name)
> 
> 
> Strange synchronicity... I posted the same idea a few minutes ago to my
> blog:
> 
> http://iandavis.com/blog/2007/12/303-asymmetry
> 
> I called my header "resource-description"

Actually the ideas are not the same, but share some similarities. My
header points to the description of a resource, yours indicates that the
response entity _is_ the description. 

Ian