Re: Which URI should be persistent when redirects are used?

On 29 Sep 2007, at 11:20, Xiaoshu Wang wrote:
>> And what about content negotiation?  The requestor's original URI  
>> could be redirected to different URIs depending on MIME Type and  
>> Language.
>>
> Content negotiation don't change the URI.  The server returns  
> different representations for a particular request depending on the  
> MIME type and q score, but all the representation is under the same  
> URI.

Not necessarily. A server can of course inspect the request and  
redirect to different targets based on some aspect of the request. I  
would call this content negotiation too.

FWIW, this strategy is widely used (with 303 redirects) by data  
publishers in the Linking Open Data project [1].

Best,
Richard

[1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/ 
LinkingOpenData

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