- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:23:01 -0400
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- CC: Rhys Lewis <rhys@volantis.com>, www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote: > BTW, here are a two more examples of information resources whose essence > is NOT information -- i.e., their essence cannot be transmitted in a > message -- nor are they really about dynamically generating > representations: > > - A site for anonymous crime tips. The site *consumes* > information, but all it ever sends back is a 200 reponse saying "Thank > you". > > - A confessional site. Again, the site *consumes* information, > but all it ever sends back is a 200 reponse saying "You are forgiven". > > In these examples, the key point is that they are network information > *sinks*. > > So that makes them information resinks? :-) In seriousness, though, that may actually deal with these cases. These end points could well be POST (or PUT) only. They would not allow (anonymous ) GET and thus would not return representations of any resource. Possibly with authorization someone could GET such a resource, but then they would no longer be pure sinks. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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