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Re: httpRange-14: Consequences of redirection

From: Xiaoshu Wang <wangxiao@musc.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:26:30 +0000
Message-ID: <474EE836.5080901@musc.edu>
To: "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>
CC: Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@gmail.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, sean@miscoranda.com, richard@cyganiak.de

I don't think which HTTP response pattern/code is the core issue.  The 
core issue is if we should be allowed to use any HTTP code to judge the 
nature of a resource. 

The fundemental assumption of RDF is that everything is an instance of 
rdfs:Resource.  If somehow, this fundamental belief can be challenged, 
such as by checking if "rdfs:Resource" returns a particular HTTP code, 
then the entire RDF system itself is already put on a shaky ground.

If we want to judge this sort of thing, it must be outside of RDF but 
not within.  The irony, however, is this - if we don't care to and 
cannot judge if someone does it right or wrong, then why bother?

Xiaoshu 
Received on Thursday, 29 November 2007 16:27:06 GMT

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