RE: [httpRange-14]: New Draft Finding "Dereferencing HTTP URIs"

> From: Norman Walsh
> 
> / "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com> was heard to say:
> | A new draft TAG finding, "Dereferencing HTTP URIs" is available for
> | review at:
> |
> | http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/httpRange-14/2007-05-31/HttpRange-14
>  . . .
> I think it would be possible to concoct a scenario where 303 made
> sense for an information resource. . . .

Sure: if you are not certain whether something qualifies as an
information resource or not, then the conservative route is to use a
303.

> 
> I could live with a statement that 303 should not be used with
> information resources, but I wouldn't personally fight for it :-)

I think it would be hard to impose that advice unless the difference
between an information resource and a non-information resource is made
clear, and it certainly is *not* clear at present.

David Booth, Ph.D.
HP Software
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Received on Friday, 1 June 2007 03:53:21 UTC