RE: HTTP URIs and authority

Hello Xiaoshou,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] 
> On Behalf Of Xiaoshu Wang
> Sent: 23 October 2007 16:11
> To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
> Subject: Re: HTTP URIs and authority
>
> noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote:
> > Xiaoshu Wang writes:
> >   
> >> I think you still do.  You own the URI but you don't own Paris. 
> >> What people gets back is your personal "impression" of Paris.
> >>     
> >
> > Yes, if I say that the URI identifies my personal impression of that

> > city, no if I say that it identifies the city itself.  Of course,
with 
> > any resource, there is the question of the care I take in
implementing 
> > its responses on the Web.  Representations can come back with 
> > erroneous information for all sorts of reasons, including sloppy 
> > coding, faulty hardware, etc.  One of those reasons is that I just 
> > wasn't careful in researching the population number that I offered. 
> > That doesn't make the URI identify my "impression" of Paris; if I
say 
> > it identifies the city
> >   
> - The URI identifies the city.
> 
> - The *representation* that people gets back by dereferencing 
> the URI with HTTP protocol is your *impression*. 
> 
> - Your *impression* about the city is NOT the *city*. 

My hope is that Noah being a TAG member in good standing has followed
the TAG's advice and arranged either to use a #'d URI or to deploy a 303
redirect. In this way Noah's description of Paris (what you speak of as
his impression) will never be confused with Paris. 

In the # case the URI used in the HTTP protocol request line is *not*
the same as the one that refers to Paris.

In the 303 case you don't get a representation at all when you retrieve
using Noah's URI for Paris - you only get something, may be a
representation, if you choose to try to follow the redirect.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Xiaoshu

Stuart
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